Thirty years of sewage treatment industry: Tuyere never sleeps

Dr. Fu Tao's new book "Introduction to the Environmental Industry" says in the preface that "the environmental industry is a legend", as part of the environmental industry, the sewage treatment industry is also like a legend.

Taking the introduction of social capital in 1993 as a starting point, the industrialization process of sewage treatment has been going on for 27 years. The industry usually takes the Notice issued by the former Ministry of Construction in 2002 on the issuance of the Opinions on Accelerating the Market-oriented Process of the Municipal Public Utilities Industry as a sign of the comprehensive launch of the reform of public utilities. The announcement came as some asserted that 2003 would be the "first year" of the marketization of public utilities. In fact, before this, all over the country has been piecemeal fire of market-oriented reform of public utilities.

In the market-oriented reform of public utilities, the water industry is in the forefront, since 1993, water supply and sewage treatment have begun to explore industrialization, and in 1998, it buried the seeds of development for more than 20 years. In particular, sewage treatment, more than 20 years, industrialization, marketization continues to deepen and improve, people and enterprises that entered the industry, there are some growth and development, there are some transformation to survive, there are some bankruptcy liquidation. In any case, what still survives today is already the cornerstone of the industry.

The history of the sewage treatment industry is not long, and there are many things. Limited in length, this article is not in accordance with the complete timeline, but to select a few of them can connect a period of time, and have a decisive impact on the industry key words, tube Zhongpeep, together review the 30 years of industrial development of the tuyere, this is not the glorious years of nostalgia and memorial, but hope to get some inspiration and touch on the present and future.

01 BOT

Chapter introduction: BOT model and franchise system are the first outlet of sewage treatment industry, and the golden decade of industry is thus opened. In the past ten years, China's sewage treatment field has made remarkable achievements, but also created a group of industrial backbone.

Beijing, 2003. A well-known expert asked a colleague, "What does BOT mean?" Colleagues couldn't answer either.

BOT was definitely new back then, though in 1998, the state approved the BOT model, allowing local governments to operate municipal utilities as bots, with the operating companies receiving fixed returns.

In 1997, Peng Harrier Environmental Protection tried to build a BOT model of Gongzhuling City sewage treatment project in Jilin Province, and it was not very smooth at the beginning. The project began construction in April 2000 and became operational in October 2002.

In 1999, Wen Yibo, chairman of Sander Group, launched the "China Green Water Plan" and proposed to build 100 sewage treatment plants in China using the BOT model, which was laughed at by the crowd and everyone said it was bragging.

100 sewage treatment plants, BOT model, this was a little unthinkable at the time.

According to the "China Urban Construction Statistical Annual Report", in 1999, China's sewage treatment rate (unless specifically specified, the sewage treatment rate and sewage treatment plants refer to municipal sewage treatment) was 31.93%, Beijing 25%, only Tianjin reached 53% in several municipalities directly under the central government, and 402 urban sewage treatment plants in the country. It took a whole year, and by 2000, 25 more sewage treatment plants had been built across the country, reaching 427.

The explorers are not stopping. Change is happening.

In 2001, Sander Group built Xiaojiahe sewage treatment Plant in Beijing, which was completed and put into operation in 2002, opening the BOT model in the sewage treatment industry.

The sewage treatment plant of Beijing Economic Development Zone, which was participated by Construction Engineering Jin Yuan, was also put into commercial operation in April 2002.

Sander Group subsequently obtained the Nanchang Xianghu, Baotou southern suburbs and other sewage treatment BOT projects. The efforts of Sander, Construction Engineering Jinyuan, Peng Harrier Environmental Protection and other companies have helped and promoted the relevant government departments to realize that marketization is an effective solution to China's urban sewage problem.

At the end of 2002, the Opinions on Accelerating the Marketization Process of the Municipal Public Utility Industry were issued, "With institutional innovation and mechanism innovation as the driving force, with the purpose of ensuring the public interest and promoting the development of the municipal public utility industry, accelerate the marketization process of the municipal public utility industry, introduce a competition mechanism, and establish a government franchise system." Form as soon as possible with the socialist market economic system to adapt to the municipal public sector market system, encourage diversified investment, allow cross-regional, cross-industry participation in the operation, the establishment of municipal public sector franchise system, which is starting the sewage treatment market a valuable acceleration.