Company: CHNR
Filing Date: 2025-05-15
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001079973-25-000827
Chunk: 90

Company: CHINA NATURAL RESOURCES INC
Filing Date: 2025-05-15
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4
Chunk 90
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jiang Project”). In 2021, 2022, and for the period from January 1, 2023 to July 31, 2023, revenues derived from the EPC projects amounted to CNY12.39 million, CNY14.63 million, and CNY9.12 million respectively, and those derived from the Wujiang Project were CNY6.35 million, CNY5.51 million and CNY3.63 million, respectively.
 
Government Regulation and National Policy of Rural Wastewater Treatment Industry
 
The development of the rural wastewater treatment industry is highly supported by national policies in the PRC. Some of the regulations and policies are summarized below.
 
In 2010, in order to promote domestic wastewater treatment in rural areas of the PRC, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development issued the “Technical Guidelines for Rural Domestic Wastewater Treatment by Regions.” The document set out the characteristics, discharge requirements and drainage systems of rural domestic wastewater in each region of the PRC, as well as rural domestic wastewater treatment technologies (including parameters and schematic diagrams), selection of technologies, management of facilities and engineering examples.
 
In 2010, the Ministry of Environmental Protection issued the “Technical Specifications for Control of Domestic Pollution in Rural Areas” and the “Technical Policy on Prevention and Control of Domestic Pollution in Rural Areas.” The former document introduced several technologies for controlling rural domestic wastewater pollution, including source control, household 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.
 

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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