Recycling gathers at a much faster pace

With the process of modernization and industrial development, migrants have flooded into the Hefei Economic Technological Development Area.

The increasing size of the population and the improvement of living standards have inevitably resulted in the creation of more rubbish and waste.

"We were local farmers before this place was turned into a development zone 20 years ago," says Wei Pingying, a 70-year-old grandmother from Haiheng, one of the development area's five major communities.