"China Economic Weekly" reporter Zhang Yujing | Beijing report
(This article was published in China Economic Weekly, No. 44, 2016)
At the construction site of the “Bishui Submerged Reclaimed Water Plant†in Tongzhou, Beijing, Hou Feng, chairman of China Water Environment Group, recalled that if he did not choose to be a business, he would continue to study on the road of scientific research.
Hou Feng, Chairman of China Water Environment Group, "Photographer of China Economic Weekly"
After graduating from college in 1983, Hou Feng, who has achieved outstanding results, was assigned to the China Academy of Engineering Physics (hereinafter referred to as “Chinese Libraryâ€) for scientific research. Because of the continuous research and scientific research achievements, there have been opportunities to stay in school.
Founded in 1958, Zhongyuanyuan is the only nuclear weapons research and production unit in the national plan. It is a comprehensive research institute integrating theory, experiment, design and production with the development of cutting-edge science and technology. As a representative of cutting-edge technology, Zhongyuanyuan has gathered a large number of top domestic scientists, including Deng Jiaxian, the father of the atomic bomb, and Yu Min, the father of the hydrogen bomb. There are 22 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Hou Feng has won the 5th and 6th Excellent Environmental Science and Technology Worker Awards of the Chinese Society of Environmental Sciences and the 3rd China Double Bomb Deng Dengxian Youth Science and Technology Award.
To this day, Hou Feng is grateful for the nearly 20 years of research career. The training of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in scientific research and the excellence of science and technology have laid a solid foundation for his future establishment.
China Water Environment Group is a water environment professional investment company under the CITIC Industry Fund. It has become a leading domestic and world-class integrated water environment management service investment operator and PPP leader. Among the first and second batch of PPP demonstration projects of the Ministry of Finance, China Water Environment Group has 6 (specifically the first demonstration projects: comprehensive treatment of water environment in Guiyang Nanming River, Shanghai Jiading Nanxiang sinking sewage treatment plant. The second batch Demonstration projects: water environment treatment in Guang'an clean water area, Chengdu Tianfu New District sewage treatment plant and scientific eco-city, Dali Bohai Lake governance, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Canal watershed management), with a total investment of nearly 20 billion yuan. The Guiyang Nanming River Water Environment Project was also awarded as the Demonstration Project of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development and the Ministry of Environmental Protection's Black and Stinky River Road and Water Environment.
In November 2015, invited by the Ministry of Environmental Protection, China Water Environment Group, as the sole speaker, participated in the Sino-US Water Environmental Protection Policy International Symposium held in Washington, DC, and shared the experience of PPP projects such as Nanming River with international experts. Highly praised by international agencies such as UNEP and the US Environmental Protection Agency.
In October 2016, at the invitation of the Ministry of Finance, the group participated in the World Bank Annual Meeting “PPP Reform in China†seminar held in Washington, DC, sharing the practical experience of PPP model in water environment management, and obtained the World Bank and the United States. High praise from universities and well-known research institutions.
On October 11, 2016, in the third batch of demonstration projects jointly issued by the 20 departments, China Water Environment Group has selected a number of projects with a total investment of over 10 billion yuan.
Helping the two military-to-civilian enterprises to successfully go public and bring Chinese technology out of the country
In the days of working in the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hou Feng has been continuously researching in scientific research. At the same time, he also pays great attention to the application of military-to-civilian people, and tries to apply advanced military technology to actual production and life.
As the first inventor, Hou Feng presided over the development of integrated urban sewage treatment technology (LIER-POOLK), which uses self-developed high-efficiency fully suspended biofilm filler, new type of flow device, constant water level decanter, advanced and reliable The control system overcomes the shortcomings of foreign UNITAK process technology. Simply put, the outstanding features of this system are continuous flow, constant water level, good nitrogen and phosphorus removal. In practical application, it is less land occupation, investment, low energy consumption and low operating cost, which is very suitable for small and medium-sized cities. Sewage treatment has broad market prospects. The technology won the Best Practical Technology Award from the Ministry of Science and Technology and the China Academy of Engineering Physics's Army-to-People Science and Technology Innovation Award.
The second phase of the Taziba Wastewater Treatment Plant in Mianyang City, Sichuan Province, utilized the integrated process technology (LIER-POOLK) and was awarded the “National Key Environmental Protection Practical Technology Demonstration Project†in 2005.
Prior to founding China Water Environment Group, Hou Feng worked for two military-to-civilian enterprises that were very successful. Founded in 1993, Lier Chemical was founded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and is an outstanding representative of the high-tech enterprises of the military. The company was listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in July 2008. Hou Feng joined the Lear Entrepreneurship Team in 1997 as Executive Vice President.
In 2001, Zhongkecheng Environmental Protection Group Co., Ltd. was established, and Hou Feng became the president. This is also based on the innovation and scientific achievements of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, with sewage treatment investment, design, construction, operation management, key equipment production and complete sets. Specialized water treatment group companies such as business. In 2005, he successfully cooperated with Sichuan University and other units to apply for the “National Urban Sewage Treatment and Resource Engineering Technology Centerâ€, and Hou Feng became the first director.
"The difficulty in industrializing the military to the people, this difficulty is actually very large. From 2001 to 2008, it took 7 years. In 2008, through the marriage with Beijing Control, the indirect listing in Hong Kong was realized." Hou Feng said .
In June 2008, the water market was born with a very important acquisition case – Beijing Enterprises acquired the Zhongkecheng Environmental Protection Group, which has grown rapidly in the western China water market in recent years. The Beijing Enterprises Group, which has considerable accumulation and experience in the field of water supply, has become a classic case in the water market with the 2 million tons of treatment scale in the sewage field and the leading position in science and technology.
After completing the acquisition in 2009, Beikong Water's advanced technology successfully went abroad. Hou Feng, as the executive director and vice president of Beijing Enterprises Water Management and Investment, led the team to defeat many internationally renowned water companies such as Japan and won Malaysia. The subject of the Kuala Lumpur underground sewage plant. At that time, President Hu Jintao and Malaysian Prime Minister Najib witnessed the signing ceremony. This is the largest underground sewage treatment plant in Malaysia to date, with a daily sewage treatment capacity of 320,000 tons, which has become a landmark case for Chinese companies to go abroad.
In 2014, Hou Feng, who has more than 20 years of experience in the field of water environmental management, set off again and led a large number of high-tech talents in the water environment to create CITIC Water. After 2015, it was renamed China Water Environment Group. In less than three years, this company, which understands both the market and the long-term research, has become the leading and world-class integrated water environment management service investment operator in China.
Do the 2.0 version of the water environment comprehensive management operator
"The chairman always carries two pairs of shoes, a pair of leather shoes and a pair of sneakers. Every time you go to a project, you have to carry out on-the-spot reconnaissance. If you go for two or three hours, you can find the problems in the project process at any time and solve them at any time." The employees of China Water Environment Group told the China Economic Weekly reporter.
In the years of water environment management work, Hou Feng found that the management of the water environment should be comprehensively managed. The previous model was established by the sewage plant, but the mother river did not get better. The mother rivers in many cities did not rain and were black and stinky. Water, under the rain is yellow water. It is like an occupational disease. Every time I see a river or lake, Hou Feng and colleagues will evaluate the water source, class II, class III, and class V.
“As an important part of green development, water environment management is embarking on a 2.0 version from the construction of a single water plant to the comprehensive management of water environment in the basin. The development based on water quality improvement, ecological construction as the core, and industrial upgrading as value-added development Path." Hou Feng said, "This PPP model is indispensable. Through PPP companies can provide the system with a comprehensive solution for water environment management, greatly improving investment efficiency and service quality."
In April 2015, the State Council officially issued the “Water Pollution Prevention Action Plan†(ie “Water Tenâ€), emphasizing “the implementation of watershed, sub-regional and phased scientific management of rivers, lakes and seas, systematically promoting water pollution prevention and control, water ecological protection and Water resources management."
In the comprehensive management of river basin water environment, the China Water Environment Group Guiyang Nanming River Water Environment Comprehensive Treatment Project (the first batch of PPP demonstration projects of the Ministry of Finance), for example, invested 2.8 billion yuan, which lasted two years, and built a new reclaimed water plant of 500,000 tons/ Days, the stock will be rebuilt 500,000 tons/day, dredging, rain and sewage diversion, ecological restoration, etc. of the 120-kilometer long river channel, and the construction of related supporting pipe network, sludge treatment and resource utilization of 700 tons/day, will change the black stinky river In order to clear the green river and promote the investment, drive tourism and real estate development, the people enjoy the achievements of ecological civilization construction. The innovative planning concept of “moderate concentration, on-site treatment, and near reuse†and the application of a number of new technologies have saved the government 1.1 billion yuan in investment, saved nearly 1,000 acres of land, and replenished 450,000 tons of water per day to the river ecosystem. The pressure of remote water transfer.
Another example is the Dali Bohai Sea Environment Comprehensive Treatment Project (the second batch of PPP demonstration projects of the Ministry of Finance), which has built 6 fully-recessed reclaimed water plants and 290 km of supporting pipe networks. During the project, the company will take advantage of technology and management. The original investment of 3.59 billion yuan was optimized to 2.98 billion yuan, saving 610 million yuan of investment, saving construction period of 6 months, saving nearly 20 million tons of water for irrigation in the Bohai Sea every year. The investment exceeded the total of the 12th Five-Year Environmental Protection Ecological Investment in Dali Prefecture, driving local ECO development.
In the area of ​​regional integrated water environment management, taking the comprehensive water environment management of the “clean water†area in Sichuan Guang'an (the second batch of PPP demonstration projects of the Ministry of Finance) as an example, the project covers 108 towns and towns in two districts and two districts of Guang'an City. Comprehensive utilization of water source protection, sewage treatment and resource utilization.
The reason why the project is called regional comprehensive governance is because the Guang'an area is not only related to the living life of the Sichuan people in the "Xiaoping hometown", but also because it is located in the ecological sensitive area of ​​the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, water conservation and biodiversity conservation in the Three Gorges reservoir area. It has a major impact on the safety of drinking water for 30 million people in Chongqing. The project is also the only project in China that is the only regional cross-basin water environment comprehensive management PPP model.
Pay attention to talent technology
Because of his research, Hou Feng pays great attention to the scientific research quality of the company's employees. As of September 25, 2016, the Group's technical systems have a bachelor's degree or above, accounting for 99%, master's degree or above accounting for 90%, and doctoral and post-doctoral proportions of 7%.
In the campus recruitment of Tsinghua University and Sichuan University, Hou Feng participated in the event, sharing the life sentiment and the group vision on the spot. The atmosphere of the job fair was full and the venue was full.
Within the company, Hou Feng’s cultivation of talents is also a matter of decades. Like the instructors on campus, graduate students, doctors, Hou Feng and each technical backbone in-depth exchanges, for each doctor to develop an independent development plan, support them to go abroad for further study, while giving the stage of the talent market, The technology is industrialized and benefited, and it is recognized by the market.
A group of internal employees share, when there are employees in the department leaving the company, if Hou Feng knows, they will personally interview. After the talk, many of the employees who were going to leave, not only continue to stay in the group, but also played. Very good role.
At present, China Water Environment Group has hired Professor Qian Yi from the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Professor Peng Yongzhen from the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Professor Kong Hainan from Shanghai Jiaotong University, and other experts and scholars to form an expert committee. It has successively worked with Tsinghua University, Sichuan University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Chinese Environmental Protection Center. The Institute of Science and Technology and other well-known domestic universities and research institutes have established long-term strategic alliances of production, education and research.
Recently, the only national engineering laboratory in the field of urban sewage treatment jointly approved by the Group and Academician Peng Yongzhen was approved; an industrialized cooperative enterprise and workstation were jointly established with Shanghai Jiaotong University, and “Shanggu Environmental Technology Co., Ltd.†was established jointly with the world. The famous engineering consulting company HDR USA established a long-term strategic partnership.
Hou Feng said that becoming a leading domestic and world-class integrated water environment management service investment operator must always adhere to the values ​​of professionalism, cooperation and win-win, and continuously improve the quality of water ecological environment. Next, the Group will also actively expand the international market and respond to the national “Belt and Road†call to form an international strategic layout.
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