Infrastructure and Energy

According to The 2019 Report on the State of the Ecology and Environment in China issued by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the status of China's infrastructure and energy is as follows:

Infrastructure

Industrial waste gas In 2018*, out of the 112,559 gasrelated enterprises surveyed by the National Environmental Statistics, 88,585 enterprises had installed waste gas treatment facilities. There were 368,999 sets of waste gas treatment facilities installed nationwide, an increase of 6.9 percent compared with that of 2017. In specific, there were 41,746 sets of desulfurization facilities with an average desulfurization efficiency of 95.3 percent; 21,816 sets of denitrification facilities with an average denitration efficiency of 79.1 percent; 130,019 sets of dust removal facilities with an average dedusting efficiency of 99.5 percent.

Industrial wastewater In 2018**, out of the 71,323 waterrelated enterprises surveyed by the National Environmental Statistics, 59,708 enterprises had installed wastewater treatment facilities. There were 72,952 sets of wastewater treatment facilities installed nationwide, an increase of 3.7 percent compared with that of 2017. The capacity of wastewater treatment facilities was 223.7 million ton/day. Sewage By the end of 2019, the urban sewage treatment capacity across the country reached 177 million m3/day, and the accumulative sewage treatment volume reached 53.2 billion m³. There were 2,899 black and odorous water bodies found in cities at prefecture-level and above nationwide, 2,513 of which were treated, with a treatment rate of 86.7 percent.

Solid Waste By the end of 2019, the decontamination capacity of urban solid waste across the country was 870,800 ton/day, and the decontamination rate reached 99.2 percent. 24,000 informal and unauthorized solid waste dumping sites were identified nationwide, with 90 percent of which treated.

Engergy

Based on preliminary accounting, the total consumption of primary energy*** across the country in 2019 was 4.86 billion tons coal equivalent, up by 3.3 percent compared with that of 2018. Among them, coal consumption went up by 1.0 percent, crude oil up by 6.8 percent, natural gas up by 8.6 percent, and electricity up by 4.5 percent****. Coal consumption took up 57.7 percent of total energy consumption, down by 1.5 percentage points compared with that of 2018. The consumption of clean energy such as natural gas, hydropower, nuclear power and wind power took up 23.4 percent of the total energy consumption volume, up by 1.3 percentage points compared with that of 2018. The energy consumption per 10,000 yuan GDP***** went down by 2.6 percent compared with that of 2018.

*Up to the time this Report was published, the indicators in relation to industrial waste gas in 2018 were preliminary data.

**Up to the time this Report was published, the indicators in relation to industrial wastewater in 2018 were preliminary data.

***According to the results of the 4th National Economic Census, historical data on relevant indicators such as total consumption of primary energy had been revised.

****Data source is from China Electricity Council.

*****The energy consumption per 10,000 yuan GDP is calculated at the 2015 price, and the historical data had been revised according to the results of the 4th National Economic Census.