South China's largest comprehensive treatment base for hazardous waste disposal came under construction July 23 in the Environmental Protection Industry section of Fushan Industrial Park in northwestern Doumen.

Zhuhai Dongjiang Environmental Science & Technology is building the Zhuhai Green Industry Service Center at a cost of 450 million yuan ($64 million). The 144-mu (9.6-hectare, 23.7-acre) plant is a key provincial project designed to annually process 245,500 tons of 23 kinds of hazardous waste. Involved in the process are incineration, physicochemical treatment, and resource utilization.

An investment agreement was signed between parent company Dongjiang Environmental and the Fushan Industrial Park Administrative Committee in June 2018, and the project received a favorable environmental impact report in April 2019.

Groundbreaking [Photo provided by Zhuhai Green Industry Service Center to Guanhai App]

Founded in Shenzhen in 1999, Dongjiang Environmental is a leading environmental service provider of harmless processing and resource utilization of industrial and municipal waste, water treatment, and environmental engineering and detection.

Currently, the company reports an annual disposal capability of more than 1.9 million tons of hazardous waste in 44 categories. As of Dec 31, 2019, it operated 10 Guangdong subsidiaries capable of disposing of 1.06 million tons of hazardous waste per year, accounting for 18 percent of the province's total.

Dongjiang Environmental earned second in the State Scientific & Technological Progress Awards in 2016 and had been named one of the Top 100 Chinese Enterprises With the Greatest Potential by Forbes from 2005 to 2009.

When the Zhuhai Green Industry Service Center comes into operation, it is to expand the business scope and core competitiveness of Dongjiang Environmental in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area synergistically with other Pearl River Delta projects in Jiangmen, Foshan, and Dongguan.