Problems in the utilization of sewage resources

5. Perfect and reasonable price system

China has long regarded wastewater as "waste", but not as a resource, so China's current main sewage treatment industry, mainly capital input, no output, input funds, from the government and residents pay, wastewater as a pollutant directly discharged. Water shortage areas can add new investment, and the treated water quality can be upgraded from the standard discharge to the level of four or more categories, and the sewage can be used as a commodity or resource, with value. Perfect and reasonable pricing system, taking into account the interests of various parties on the basis of determining reasonable pricing, sewage as a resource or commodity, will greatly reduce the pressure of water shortage.

6. We will promote the trusteeship service model for comprehensive environmental governance

The "13th Five-Year Plan for Ecological Environmental Protection" (Guofa (2016) No. 65) proposed to "carry out pilot programs for comprehensive environmental management and trusteeship services in small towns and parks." In the "13th Five-Year Plan for the Development of National Strategic Emerging Industries" (Guofa (2016) No. 67), it is proposed to "carry out the pilot of third-party environmental pollution treatment and the pilot of trusteeship services for comprehensive environmental treatment". The "Guiding Opinions on Actively Playing the Role of Environmental Protection to Promote Supply-side Structural Reform" (Huanatmospheric (2016) No. 5) proposes that "conditional industrial parks are encouraged to hire third-party professional environmental protection service companies as" environmental stewards "to provide integrated environmental protection services and solutions such as monitoring, supervision, construction and operation of environmental protection facilities, and pollution control to the parks." On June 13, 2017, the National Development and Reform Commission issued the "Service Industry Innovation Development Outline (2017-2025)" (Development and Reform Plan (2017) No. 1116), proposing to "promote the trusteeship of comprehensive environmental management in industrial parks and small towns". In the same year, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment initiated a project to carry out the "Case Study on the trusteeship Service Model of Comprehensive Environmental Governance" to provide support for the research and development of relevant policies on the demonstration and promotion of the trusteeship service model of comprehensive environmental governance.