History of FECO/MEP

Foreign Economic Cooperation Office of Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China (FECO/MEP) was officially established after the approval of the State Commission Office for Public Sector Reform in 1997.

The responsibilities of FECO/MEP include: utilizing financial resources, funds and grants from international financial organizations, bilateral organizations/countries, managing other international cooperative affairs, collecting information about international projects with financial assistance and assisting in compiling the plans for international projects with financial assistance, collecting information about candidate projects with international financial assistance and assisting in project selection and assessment, contacting with relevant departments of the focal points whose responsibilities are to attract foreign financial resources and guiding the implementation of international projects with financial assistance in different localities and for different departments, formulating management rules related to international projects with financial assistance and managing and implementing the international projects with financial aid undertaken by MEP, assisting international organizations to integrate environmental elements into non-environmental projects and assisting in evaluating environmental impact assessment of international projects with financial assistance.