Thirty years of sewage treatment industry: Tuyere never sleeps

The next outlet is brewing, it is an old face, and everyone in the industry knows it and thinks it is nothing. But this time, it is painted and powdered, and the power is not the same.

In 2013, China's market-oriented sewage treatment reform continued to explore progress. Since 2014, the sewage treatment PPP model has gradually emerged, which is based on "benefit sharing, risk sharing and long-term cooperation" to promote cooperation between the government and companies in sewage treatment facilities.

PPP is not a new term, it once came with BOT, and is also considered to be the father of BOT, BOT is just a kind of PPP.

Generally speaking, both of these are project financing models, including financiers, funders and guarantors, both of which make the public sector contract with private enterprises by signing concession agreements, and both of which repay debts and obtain investment returns with the profits of project operation.

Neither of these two models is a unique invention of the sewage treatment industry, and they have applications in other infrastructure fields and public services.

Just as the rise of BOT mode has a direct policy drive, PPP also has a strong policy driver.

The situation of sewage treatment after 2013 is that almost all the sewage treatment plants that should be built in cities across the country have been built, but the overall situation of the water environment has not changed fundamentally as expected, and the black and smelly situation of water bodies in some cities is still. The fundamental reason is that in the last decade, more heavy construction, light operation, heavy targets, light actual results.

In 2015, the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee deliberated and adopted the "Water Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan" (referred to as the "Water Ten"), which was released on April 16.

At the same time, in May 2015, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Environmental Protection issued the Implementation Opinions on Promoting public-Private Partnership (PPP) in the Field of Water Pollution Prevention and Control. This "opinion" includes encouraging the promotion of PPP work in the field of water pollution prevention and control, implementing the integration of urban and rural water supply and drainage, the integration of factory and network, and the "packaging" of industries, achieving combined development, and attracting social capital participation.