Decoding the List of Enterprises Meeting Environmental Protection Equipment Manufacturing Industry Standards
China Daily, Aug. 15 - According to the website of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the ministry released a list of enterprises meeting environmental protection equipment manufacturing industry standards for 2025 on August 15. By implementing industrial standards, the industry will be able to regulate its development and maintain order. Wang Yining, honorary chairman of the China Environmental Protection Machinery Association, analyzed the meaning behind this move. He pointed out that the environmental protection equipment manufacturing industry is a strategic emerging industry that drives high-quality economic and social development as well as high-level environmental protection, with characteristics such as strong policy guidance, broad product coverage, and high industry correlation.
I. Policy-Guided Industry Development
As the main department responsible for the environmental protection equipment manufacturing industry, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has released a series of important policy documents, including "Guiding Opinions on Accelerating the Development of Environmental Protection Equipment Manufacturing" and "Action Plan for High-Quality Development of Environmental Protection Equipment Manufacturing (2022-2025)", which have greatly promoted the high-quality development of the industry. Currently, major environmental protection equipment can meet domestic demand, and the industry's total output value has increased from 2.7 trillion yuan in 2011 to 92 trillion yuan in 2024, with an average annual growth rate of around 10%. Companies have also made significant improvements in their capabilities for green, digital, intelligent, and high-end development.
At the beginning of this year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology jointly issued "Several Opinions on Promoting the High-Quality Development of Environmental Protection Equipment Manufacturing" with the Ministry of Ecological Environment and the State Administration for Market Regulation, which outlined four key tasks: promoting the development of key environmental protection technologies, accelerating the application of advanced environmental protection technologies, cultivating new momentum for industry development, and optimizing the environment for industrial development. This includes specifying the formulation and revision of environmental protection equipment manufacturing industry standards to guide the industry's development.
II. Standards Clarify Industry Development Requirements
By formulating and releasing environmental protection equipment manufacturing industry standards, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has selected standardized enterprises, which is an important measure to guide companies to "standardize their operations, strengthen research and development, improve product quality, and emphasize workplace safety". Since 2016, a total of four sets of industry standards for environmental protection equipment have been formulated and released, covering areas such as air pollution control, water pollution control, environmental monitoring instruments, and solid waste treatment equipment.
The main requirements for these standards are that companies should have research and development capabilities, design and installation debugging capabilities, product quality control capabilities, and safety production standardization capabilities. Enterprises should also have fixed production sites that match their production scale and have stable technical cooperation mechanisms with research institutions, universities, and scientific research institutes.
III. Environmental Protection Equipment Manufacturing Industry Standardized Management Achieves Positive Effects
The implementation of environmental protection equipment manufacturing industry standards has standardized the production and operations of enterprises in the industry, promoting the development of the industry towards a scale, specialization, and high-end direction. The overall level of the industry has been lifted.
As of now, there are 416 standardized enterprises, which have a better overall development than the average level of the industry. According to statistics, these companies achieved an output value of 153.9 billion yuan in 2024, accounting for 16.7% of the total output value of the industry. The number of water pollution control enterprises is the highest, with 194 companies accounting for 46.6% of the total; the unit output value of atmospheric pollution control enterprises is the highest, at 6.64 billion yuan per company, far exceeding the average level of 1.05 billion yuan per company; solid waste treatment equipment enterprises have a higher profit rate, at 9.02%, surpassing the industry's average profit rate by approximately 3.3 percentage points; and environmental monitoring instrument companies have the highest research and development investment ratio to operating income, at 10.5%, which is 1.9 times that of other standardized enterprise groups.
The implementation of environmental protection equipment manufacturing industry standards not only selects a batch of excellent enterprises but also activates the upgrading momentum of the entire industry through the "benchmark effect". Standardized enterprises are no longer dependent on the "purchase of general parts + simple assembly" model, but rather propose requirements for the lifespan and performance stability of key core components and participate deeply in the development and upgrade of these components. Through modes such as "technology output - standard sharing - joint attack", they drive upstream suppliers to achieve technological upgrades. For enterprises, meeting standards is not an end goal, but rather a basis for continuous improvement in technology innovation, quality competitiveness, and social responsibility; for the industry, the implementation of standards will promote environmental protection equipment from "usable" to "good use, durable, green use", upgrading the entire industry and providing a more solid equipment support for China's beautiful construction.
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