Company: CHNR
Filing Date: 2025-01-27
Form Type: POS AM
Source: 0001079973-25-000143
Chunk: 125

Company: CHINA NATURAL RESOURCES INC
Filing Date: 2025-01-27
Form: POS AM
Chunk 125
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 biogas digesters, decentralized wastewater treatment
with low energy consumption, centralized wastewater treatment, and rainwater collection and discharge. The latter document set out that
the technical route of rural domestic pollution prevention and control should be based on source control, decentralized treatment with
some support of centralized treatment, and resource reutilization.

In 2014, the Eighth Session of
the Standing Committee of the Twelfth National People’s Congress of the PRC revised the “Environmental Protection Law of the
People’s Republic of China.” The document sets out that governments at all levels in the PRC should allocate funds in their
budgets to support environmental protection work, including protection of rural drinking water sources, treatment of domestic wastewater
and other waste, prevention and control of pollution from livestock and poultry breeding, prevention and control of soil pollution and
control of pollution from rural industries and mines.

In 2014, the “Guiding Opinions
of the General Office of the State Council on Improving the Rural Living Environment” proposed to accelerate comprehensive improvement
of the rural environment focusing on the treatment of rural waste and wastewater. Where conditions permit, urban waste and wastewater
treatment facilities and services may be extended to rural areas. For villages with large populations far away from cities and towns,
village-level centralized wastewater treatment facilities may be built, and for villages with small populations, household wastewater
treatment facilities may be built.

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In 2017, the “Thirteenth
Five-Year Plan for Comprehensive Improvement of the National Rural Environment” highlighted the importance of protection of rural
drinking water sources and treatment of domestic waste and wastewater. In 2018, the “Three-Year Action Plan for the Improvement
of Rural Living Environment” promoted the treatment of rural domestic wastewater using technologies with low costs, low energy consumption,
easy maintenance and high efficiency, and encouraged the adoption of ecological treatment technologies.

In 2018, the Ministry of Ecology
and Environment and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development issued the “Notice on Accelerating the Formulation of Rural
Domestic Wastewater Discharge Standards by Regions.” Local governments were encouraged to speed up the formulation of standards
for rural wastewater treatment and discharge according to local conditions. In 2019, the “Technical Standards for Rural Domestic
Wastewater Treatment Projects” issued by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development optimized the specific technical parameters
of rural wastewater treatment to adapt to the characteristics of rural wastewater in China.

In 2020, a