China’s environmental protection sector contains three major subsectors, namely waste water treatment, solid waste treatment and recycling, and air pollution control. Besides some government guidance on the direction of development, the sector is basically market-driven. Due to the slow technological progress resulting in low entry barriers, the sector accommodates market players of all scales. However, to carry out long-term comprehensive environmental protection projects, which will become more common as the government has taken to ecological improvement and pollution control as a whole, being large in size and financially well secure is a great advantage. According to data from the China Association of Environmental Protection Industry, enterprises with individual revenue of over RMB 100mn, accounting for only 11.6% of the total number of market players, generated over 90% of the market profits in 2017.

01 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 

02 SECTOR OUTLOOK 

03 SECTOR IN FOCUS 

04 COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE 

05 COMPANIES IN FOCUS

06 REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT 

07 WASTE WATER TREATMENT 

08 SOLID WASTE TREATMENT 

09 AIR POLLUTION CONTROL