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Opportunities in China’s fast-growing environmental tech sector

Opportunities in China’s fast-growing environmental tech sector

Micah Hostetter from our Energy & Environment Group has just had an article published in Open Access Government on China’s acute pollution problems and its environmental sector, which is growing at a lightning pace to address them. Read about the opportunities and challenges for international firms in a field that's seeing a staggering $1.3 trillion investment.

Grey skies, poisoned earth, undrinkable water – these are the less-than-savoury hallmarks of China’s rapid economic transformation over the past 40 years.

Pollution has emerged as a flashpoint in the country’s next stage of development – an area China’s mandarins are eager to regulate, not only to preserve all-important social stability but to meet rising demands among China’s middle class for quality of life improvements. And this brings with it a great number of opportunities for specialist international firms.

The government has a strategy to tackle its pollution problems, most prominently enshrined in its 13th Five-Year Plan (FYP) – a policy blueprint spanning many industries. This plan, coupled with a rapid growth within …

Read full article in Open Access Government

 

Micah Hostetter
About the Author

Micah Hostetter

Micah is a member of our Energy & Environment Practice, helping western agtech, life sciences and renewable energy companies to expand in China. Micah has degrees in international and East Asian Studies and has worked and lived in China for more than a decade.

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