Economic Network | Distributed Underground Reclaimed Water Ecosystem Promotes Green Transformation of Urban Development

In the first year of the 14th Five Year Plan, green is becoming a distinctive background for high-quality development. The statement of "promoting green transformation of development mode" in the 2023 government work report has sparked widespread discussion among representatives, authoritative experts, and industry leaders both inside and outside the venue.

Recently, Hou Feng, Chairman of China Water Environment Group, shared the successful practices of enterprises in exploring urban renewal and green transformation development around the content of the government work report, and provided suggestions for promoting economic and social circular development and doing a good job in "dual carbon".

Hou Feng, Chairman of China Water Environment Group, shares his insights

The ecological environment has significantly improved, and innovative system technologies are helping to do a good job in "water culture"

In the government work report, green is mentioned 9 times and ecology is mentioned 14 times. The concept of 'green mountains and clear waters are as valuable as mountains of gold and silver' has deeply penetrated people's hearts, and green development has achieved historic results. Hou Feng believes that in recent years, significant achievements have been made in environmental governance, and more and more people have enjoyed a good ecological environment with blue skies, white clouds, and green mountains and clear waters. The 'ecological appearance' and 'happiness index' have been improved synchronously.

The government work report pointed out that the proportion of excellent surface water bodies in China has increased from 67.9% to 87.9%. Basically eliminate black and odorous water bodies in prefecture level and above cities.ent plants as a stable resource utilization center for urban water resources, green energy, and public service products. The system has been successfully applied in places such as Erhai Lake in Dali, Beijing Sub center, Chengdu Tianfu in Park City, and Nanming River in Guiyang. Compared with traditional conceptual planning techniques, it saves investment by 25% to 45% and achieves efficient utilization of land resources and green energy.

The "distributed" model is an important path to solve the problem of green and low-carbon development in urban areas

Through technological advancements in environmental governance and resource utilization, enterprises are forced to continuously improve their technological capabilities and efficiency, "said Hou Feng. With the transformation of concepts, the improvement of standards, and technological progress, enterprises not only create benefits for themselves, but also provide higher standards of services and products for the people.

China's per capita water and land resources are one-quarter and one-third of the world's per capita, respectively. Currently, China's urbanization rate has exceeded 60%. Hou Feng believes that in order for China to embark on a path of high-quality green development and urban health, it is necessary to continuously transform from concepts to technological progress and then to the supply of public service products, improve overall urban planning, vigorously promote and research distributed supply including energy, water supply and drainage, and transportation, achieve low consumption, low pollution, high utilization, and improve efficiency.

Promote green and low-carbon development, actively empower the market with innovative models

China used to solve environmental governance problems, but now it needs to simultaneously address the issues of improving efficiency, resource utilization, and carbon reduction. Hou Feng said that China Water Environment Group naturally carries the gene of green development, and regards green low-carbon and technological innovation as strategic priorities. The group's system technology has been regarded as one of the important technologies for national green new infrastructure by five ministries including the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

When it comes to how to gain market recognition in the innovation process, Hou Feng said that the key is that compared with traditional technology systems and model planning, innovative system technology can truly achieve better environmental governance effects, with less investment, lower operating costs, and more convenient resource reuse.

He summarized from two aspects: firstly, the formulation of national standards. Through extensive scientific research and engineering practice, the group has established the standard for China, which is currently the world's first sunken factory. The second is to make the people truly feel the convenience and effectiveness brought by technological innovation, especially the application of this system technology in Nanminghe, Guiyang, which has become the first successful practice case in China and internationally.

We must take technology as the driving force, market orientation, and green low-carbon development as the concept, and continue to contribute to the beautiful China with green mountains and clear waters, "said Hou Feng.