China to reduce industrial water use per 10,000 yuan per year

In April, technicians inspect a solar power storage plant in Huzhou, Zhejiang province. According to a recently released action plan on improving industrial water use efficiency, China wants to reduce water use per 10,000 yuan per 10,000 yuan per 10,000 yuan per year by 2025 from 2020, as a priority in energy conservation.

According to an official with the ministry, the action plan specified six detailed tasks, including speeding up water conservation technologies, boosting water efficiency in key industries and improving the structure of industrial water consumption.

The ministry will encourage and guide companies to improve their energy consumption patterns and improve the quality of electricity.

The MIIT official said that we will help establish a number of green factories, green industrial parks and green supply chain management firms, and support industrial firms with green upgrading.

The ministry will work to promote green manufacturing and encourage green consumption, according to Xin Guobin, vice-minister of industry and information technology.

The research, development and promotion of energy-saving industrial equipment, as well as the consumption of new energy vehicles, photovoltaic and solar-thermal products, and green construction materials, are among the things that will be encouraged.

A staff member works in a textile factory at the integrated industrial park in Moyu County of Hotan, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, Jan 11, 2022. Since 2011, DING LEI XINHUA China has promoted more than 20,000 green products and 4,000 types of equipment for energy and water conservation and comprehensive resource utilization.

There are more than 1,300 green and environment protection equipment enterprises, according to Tianyancha, according to the corporate information provider.

In the last year, the energy consumption per unit of added value of the country's large industrial enterprises with annual revenues of more than 20 million yuan dropped 5.6 percent from the previous year, after a 16 percent decline in the 2016 -- 2020 period.