Yesterday, Minister of Environmental Protection Chen Jining revealed at the China Development Forum hosted by the Development Research Center of the State Council that the central environmental protection inspection will cover the whole country for the first time this year.

Chen Jining said that the central environmental protection inspection with Chinese characteristics has previously inspected 16 provinces and held more than 6400 people accountable. This year, it will achieve full coverage in 31 provinces and promote local governments to implement environmental protection responsibilities. In addition, China has a vast territory, a large economic scale, numerous polluting enterprises, and significant regional differences. It is difficult to effectively manage with the current regulatory team and methods alone. With the application of new technologies, the Ministry of Environmental Protection is implementing an ecological environment big data construction project to build a nationwide management platform for environmental supervision and law enforcement, online monitoring of environmental quality and key enterprises, environmental impact assessment approval and management, emergency consultation and response to heavy pollution weather. The applications on these platforms will allow us to see the enforcement process of every law enforcer, the evaluation content of every environmental impact assessment report, and the historical traces of every monitoring data

This year, the foundry industry will face a major reshuffle, with a large number of foundry companies "dying" and a large number of workers facing unemployment!

In fact, since 2014, the foundry industry has been undergoing a reshuffle mode, and what troubles the foundry market is "low price competition". Due to the long-term low prices of raw materials such as pig iron and ductile iron, casting companies have lower costs in the production and manufacturing process, which allows some small and medium-sized casting factories to compete in the market at lower prices. However, due to the meager profits, some companies were unable to make ends meet, leading to a wave of bankruptcies in 2015.

In 2016, environmental protection was unprecedentedly strict, production was suspended and restricted in various regions, and raw materials began to rise wildly. The price of pig iron increased from over 1800 to over 3000, and many foundries fell into the "blood pool" of rectification. Some enterprises were still struggling, thinking that everything would be fine after March 15th this year. Unexpectedly, various regions began to delay the resumption of production.