in the 11th ‘five-year plan’, great achievements in recycling industry of the circular economy have been gloriously accomplished. adjustments made within the year of 2007 in the policies of national industry and taxation as well as capital investment have tremendously accelerated and standardized the development of recycling industry and market.
prices for raw materials of metals, plastics and paper in foreign and domestic markets have been incessantly soaring and remaining high, exerting serious repercussions upon the production cost incurred in domestic metal and plastic manufacturing industry, while the market demands for renewable metals and plastics have grown stronger, so that a hotly-discussed issue focusing on how to dramatically raise recyclable resources utilization efficiency and value to create excellent recyclable resources reaching advanced international standards and fitting in with the needs of manufacturing top-grade metal and plastic products, at present, has been put forward.
vigorous efforts have been made by the chinese government to significantly advance and stimulate the development of the recycling trade which has taken such a lion’s share of one third in the global recycling market that substantial attention from foreign businesses has been attracted, through setting up over 5000 recycling enterprises, 160 thousand recycling networks, over 3000 processing factories for waste and old goods and materials and 35 distributing centers of plastics scrap or so with more than 1.4 million employees involved. yangtze river delta, as the largest manufacturing, collecting and distributing center of recyclable resources in china, is capable of leading the whole recycling market towards prosperity and stability, and, as a densely populated region acutely in want of natural resources with otherwise a thriving manufacturing industry in equipment, electronics products, office supplies, toys, audio-video products, shoes, packing materials, and switching devices, etc., is estimated to consume a superabundant amount of metals and plastics one third of which may be considerably derived from recyclable resources. moreover, shanghai, the economic and trade centre of china, has risen rapidly to become an essential port for importing recyclable resources and a pivotal base for recycling waste and old materials, thus being hopefully chosen as the venue for this solemn conference.
he premier china international plastic recycling forum 2008 conforming to the new trends of development in recycling industry and constructing the most ideal and largest transaction platform for the lively exchange of sparkling ideas rewarding and stimulating as well as market information with a large captured audience of purchasers, suppliers, traders, machine manufacturers and producers of recyclable resources, will exercise an enormous influence upon the normalization and standardization of recycling industry and afford unprecedented opportunities of efficiency-boosting business communications as well as business co-operations with both domestic and international distinguished enterprises and eminent successes.
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