BIZCHINA / Environment
10th Five-Year Plan
Updated: 2006-04-18 11:30
The Tenth Five-Year Plan of the Environmental Protection Industry and its
Development
The Tenth Five-Year Plan (2001-2005) of the environmental protection
industry was formulated as an instructive plan according to the
requirements of ecological construction and environmental protection,
which involves the production and management of environmental protection
products, overall utilization of natural resources and environmental
services.
1. Existing problems of the environmental protection industry in China
(1) An unreasonable industry structure
First of all, the dimensional structure of enterprises is unreasonable
and there are not enough big enterprises or enterprise groups. Big-scale
enterprises only account for 2.8 percent of the nation's environmental
enterprises, 90 percent of which are small with inferior technological
equipment and a low specialization level. Annual sales of China's biggest
environmental enterprise total 300 million yuan (US$36.14 million).
Secondly, since the structure of environmental protection products is
unreasonable and the level of formulation, serial production,
standardization and nationalization of equipment is low, the phenomenon
of repetitive construction is a very serious problem.
Surveys and analyses of more than 3,000 environmental protection products
indicate that one-fifth of the products must be eliminated due to a
deficiency in reliability or standardization and framework design, and
two-fifths must be improved. While general products are in oversupply
some forms of urgently needed pollution-treatment equipment is in grave
short supply.
(2) Weakness in developing new technologies and low technological content
in relevant products. The general level of development of China's
environmental products is equivalent to the international level of the
1980s; most products lag almost 20 years behind the production level of
developed countries.
(3) Market environment for fair competition must be further improved. The
standardization system for the industry has not yet been established and
unfair competition and local protectionism are widespread.
(4) The social-service system is not perfect.
Environmental protection services, which lag behind their foreign
counterparts, are characterized by a low specialization level and cannot
accommodate the development needs of the market economy. The absence of a
healthy service system has also caused an inefficiency in equipment
operations.
Furthermore, the scale and technological means of information consultancy
services deviate from leading international standards and the
construction of consultancy companies and agents does not satisfy market
needs.
2. The situation and tasks facing the environmental industry
The Tenth Five-Pear Plan is an important period for China for speeding up
ecological development and environmental protection. On one hand, market
needs for protecting the environment are growing rapidly and bringing an
unprecedented opportunity for the industry. On the other hand, the demand
for protecting the nation's environment will become more pronounced,
which, along with the intensive competition following China's accession
to the World Trade Organization will bring huge pressures to the industry.
3. Development outlines, main objectives and key points
(1) Development outline
Priority will be given to the development of science and technology and
enterprises will be major market players in the environmental protection
industry. A macro-regulation system, opening-up and healthy competitive
market mechanism will be installed to promote the industry's healthy
development. Technological and material support will be provided to help
the industry meet its requirements for more rigorous environmental
protection to make the industry a new growth point for the national
economy.
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