Joseph Merlino
Luoyi Zhang
Laura Money
St. John's University
Charles Wankel
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Rapid development in China leads to some environmental problems. Of these problems, water pollution is one of the most serious since water is the most important resource for all organisms in the world. The clean water industry is necessary in China, and in Zhejiang, Mr. Zhang Jing, who is the manager of the Xingyuan Environment Technology Co., Ltd, fills this need by creating filtering technology and waste water processing projects.
Mr. Zhang was born in a rural town of northwest of China. There was a small pond in the front of his house, and he and his friends would fish every day. However, 30 years later, it has become a garbage dump. Everything good has become a memory. As one of the 13 countries with water shortage, China has more than 300 cities with water shortage problems, and about 300 million people (equivalent to the US population) annually average of serious water shortages. Meanwhile, people cannot drink tap water directly because of the secondary pollution in the pipe network system, which is mainly due to infrastructure that cannot meet vital requirements. Until 2000, the Chinese government was aware of the seriousness of water pollution, and it introduced a lot of governance laws and regulations. Mr. Zhang realized that this provided the opportunities to build up the water filtration industry, so he put forth a lot of manpower and material resources to develop and produce advanced machines and productions. In this case, the company thrives in the market with good performance.
Mr. Zhang claims that “inspiration is the product of continuous thinking process. When you are concerned with a problem, you will need to clarify its ins and outs, and you will ask yourself thousands questions. Finally, one of the answers may be your inspiration.”
In China, the basic need of sewage disposal system has existed, and it just needs to evolve and derive from different specifications according to the market. With the development of basic industries, new materials will continue to appear. The new materials may have much lower costs and save energy consumption, which is more environmentally friendly. For products, the use of polypropylene instead of cast iron has advantages to reduce the weight of equipment, saves processing costs, and enhances corrosion resistance.
Changes in national policy will bring new market opportunities. China's rapid development promotes that application areas continue to improve access standards. Meanwhile, the product upgrading is also very fast. The product will have longer vitality when advancing with the times.
As a foreign joint venture, Xingyuan served for SIEMENS, GE, BASF and other international companies. It also meets the environmental requirements and product quality control system, so it is the first private enterprise to implement ISO quality and environment certification systems according to national requirements. The company also cooperates with the local government to produce the sewage disposal system.
Xingyuan is the leading firm in this industry, and it has gained a lot of profit during recent decades. It also has a positive reputation in the Zhejiang province and the whole industry.
It also provides the evident benefit of helping to supply clean water to the people of China. Prior to Xingyuan, the water pollution industry was lacking a key player to keep up with ever changing government regulations, but Xingyuan filled this gap.
Mr. Zhang thinks that many factors affect the environment, and Xingyuan only does a small part of it. The company aims to simplify sewage into two parts and applies two different and targeted treatment measures to process the sewage. At present, the Xingyuan Filter has been renamed as Xingyuan Environment. The business has developed from the original environmental protection equipment providers and filtration system integrators into a comprehensive environmental management service. It forms the industrial chain of the river basin water environment management through top design, real-time monitoring, intelligent control, pollution control, ecological restoration, and operation and maintenance. Environmental problems are caused by unreasonable use of resources and energy. The future goal of the company will focus on solving this series of environmental issues according to the direction of development.
Therefore, not only is Xingyuan positively affecting the environment (by creating an effective sewage and filtration system), it is also promoting the greater good by allowing people to have clean water. Furthermore, Xingyuan aims to combat and solve environmental issues that may come forth in the future as well.
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