This year, the zone has signed a technological service contract with Xiamen University to help local businesses in the treatment of waste and improve the zone's environment.

According to the contract, professional teams from Xiamen University will provide suggestions and references for the zone's space planning, infrastructure facilities construction and industrial layout to mitigate risks to the environment.

The zone has launched an online platform that offers environmental protection information to businesses and provides them with services including sharing the zone's environment situation, environmental policies, and related consultancy. So far, the platform has received updated environmental data from 663 companies with regard to their progress in tackling pollution.

Apart from the online platform, the zone said it has organized training and conducted inspection tours to help businesses tackle difficulties in environmental protection.

This year, it has provided 45 environmental services for 25 companies, according to the zone.

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Guo Wei and Liu Qing contributed to this story.