News Broadcast | The number of industries in China that open environmental facilities to the public for visits has expanded to eight, playing a positive role.

Recently, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment has released guidelines for the opening of environmental protection facilities to the public in four industries: petrochemicals, power, steel, and building materials. These guidelines encourage the four industries to open their facilities to the public through offline visits or virtual tours.

Since 2017, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, in collaboration with relevant departments, has jointly promoted the opening of four types of environmental protection facilities to the public. These include ecological environment monitoring, urban sewage treatment, urban domestic waste treatment, and the treatment of hazardous waste and discarded electrical and electronic products, collectively referred to as the “four traditional environmental protection facilities.” This initiative has achieved positive results.

According to relevant statistical data from the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, as of now, 2,101 enterprises across the country have become units that open their environmental protection facilities to the public. These units have received a total of 220 million visits from the public. This has played a positive role in safeguarding the public's rights to be informed, to participate, and to supervise environmental issues, as well as in promoting the healthy and orderly development of related industries.

At the national level, the work of opening environmental protection facilities to the public has received high attention. Since 2021, when the Ministry of Ecology and Environment and the Central Civilization Office jointly promoted the implementation of the “Beautiful China, I am an Actor” Action Plan to Enhance Public Awareness of Ecological Civilization (2021–2025), China Water Environment Group has been rated as one of the top ten units for opening environmental protection facilities to the public for four consecutive years.

By the end of 2024, the group's top - ten units for opening environmental protection facilities in Chengdu, Shanghai, Guiyang, and Ankang had organized more than 2,800 batches of open activities, with a total reception of over 60,000 people. The open - door concept of “finding pleasure, learning, and gaining insights” has allowed the public to “immerse” themselves in the reclaimed water plants to enjoy beautiful scenery, see environmental protection in action, and get close to ecology.

Primary and secondary school students visit the group's Bishui Reclaimed Water Plant.

With reclaimed water plants and science popularization halls as the main抓手, the group's projects in various places have created regional environmental protection highlights, activated the enthusiasm of the public to participate, and promoted the construction of a large pattern of ecological environment protection involving government - enterprise cooperation, social participation, and public action.