Favorable policies for green industries underway: NDRC   

发改委：正在酝酿和修改相关政策 大力支持环保产业

(ECNS) -- The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the country's top economic planner and watchdog, is planning to adopt favorable policies for the environmental protection industries, China National Radio (CNR) has said.

China's Ministry of Environmental Protection is drafting a guideline on government procurement of environmental services, and the NDRC is also modifying policies and adding specific content about private contractors. Ma Rong, deputy director of the Department of Resource Conservation and Environmental Protection under the NDRC, said the first batch of measures will be released this year.

Xu Shufan, deputy head of the ministry's Science, Technology and Standards Department, said that inviting a third party, other than the government and polluting industries, to offer environmental services is a way to improve the country's environmental industry.

A wine-making industrial park in Huairen of Guizhou province has been cited as an example. A private environmental contractor has increased the park's attainment rate of industrial waste water from 70 percent to 99.7 percent.

He Yanbing, the head of the environmental contractor, said they have helped wine plants to build sewage facilities.

Xu said inviting private contractors to handle the pollution battle in some provinces, including Hunan and Sichuan, has proven effective.