Singapore Strengthens Cooperation with China in Water Treatment Industry

Singapore government officials said on the 26th that from 2006 to 2010, 45 water treatment projects were undertaken by Singapore companies in China, totaling S$1 billion (about 5.2 billion yuan), and China is the No. 1 water treatment industry in Singapore. The two major overseas markets. At the same time, many Chinese water treatment companies have also gone overseas through Singapore.

Singapore's Assistant Secretary for Economic Development Yang Jiquan said at the press conference on the development of Singapore's water treatment industry on that day that Singapore was originally forced to seek solutions through water scarcity. After years of efforts, this area has become a competitive economy in Singapore. One of the fields.

Yang Jiquan said that the Singapore government has made the water treatment industry a new growth point in 2006 and proposed to invest 330 million Singapore dollars (1.72 billion yuan) in five years, and plans to add an additional value of S$1.7 billion to the industry by 2015. (88.4 billion yuan), creating 11,000 jobs, making Singapore one of the international centers of the water treatment industry.

From 2006 to 2010, Singapore's water treatment industry created an annual additional value of S$590 million (3.07 billion yuan), creating 2,300 professional and technical jobs. Singapore has attracted more than 70 local and international water treatment companies.

According to Liang Tingzhao, Deputy Director of Environment and Engineering Services, Singapore International Enterprise Development Bureau, Singapore's water treatment companies' projects in China include local municipal and industrial water projects, as well as desalination projects. Wu Ziqiang, director of the Department of Clean Technology at the Economic Development Bureau, said that Sino-Singapore has a wide range of cooperation in the water treatment industry. Many Chinese water treatment companies also use Singapore as a platform for going global, and Peking University, National University of Singapore and Oxford University have also signed agreements. Establish three joint water and environmental technology teaching and research cooperation platforms.