Sewage industry likely to get fund boost

BEIJING - Industry specialists said they expect the sewage treatment industry to receive a total of 150 billion yuan ($21.97 billion) of new investment during the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-16), according to an analysis in the Chinese-language 21st Century Economic Herald.

More than half of these funds - 77.32 billion yuan - will support the construction of sewage pipeline networks.

The remainder of the funding will be ploughed into the construction and rebuilding of sewage treatment facilities at county level and above. The majority of the new sewage plants will be small- and medium-sized, serving second-tier cities.