Mr. Ma Kai, head of the National Development and Reform Commission, stressed in an article that it is China's pressing task to promote its recycling industry to ease the resources bottlenece, reduce pollution, improve the country's economic efficiency, cope with the neo-protectionism in world trade, and score sustainable development.

He concentrated on the efficiency of resources use in the five phases of the whole process chain involving resources, that is, the exploitation, industrial consumption, waste production, regenerative resources and social consumption.

He urged technical and systematic innovations to optimize the way of resources use so that resources can produce more benefits and less wastes. With this in mind, he was considering the following measure to give the recycling sector a spur.

It is on the idea of recycling economy that various visions for the 11th Five-year Plan should be built. More researches should be made on this issue. Preparation of masterplan for key areas of recycling economy, such as energy saving, water saving, comprehensive use of resources, and recycling of regenerative resources, will proceed faster. Evaluation system, strategic goals and promotion schemes will all be in place.

The tertiary and hi-tech industries with low energy consumption and low pollutants emission will get more stimuli. Traditional industries should be upgraded. The philosophy of recycling economy should be the cornerstone for any blueprints of the regional economy, industrial transformation and revival of old industrial base.

A perfect legal system is necessary for recycling economy. Top on the priority now is the drafting of regulations on comprehensive use of resources, recycling of used appliance and electronic products, recycling and reuse of tires and packaging materials. Standards of the recycling economy will be set soon.

Reforms on policies of investment, pricing, taxation and enterprises will serve to have favorable conditions in place to facilitate the recycling economy.

Technological breakthroughs should be made on resources saving and substitutes, chain of energy use, prolonged industrial chain, zero waste emission, substitutes for toxic raw materials, recycling and treatment, and environmental friendly re-producing.

Pilot projects will be conducted in key sectors, fields, industrial parks and cities.

By People's Daily Online