The 1st “Hong Kong-Guangdong Cleaner Production Partners” Label Award Presentation Ceremony was held at Zhu Jiang Hotel in Guangzhou on 25 November 2009.
Attending the ceremony were the Secretary for the Environment ofHKSAR, Mr. Edward Yau; the Deputy Secretary General forGuangdong Province, Mr Lin Ying; Division Chief of the Department of Energy Efficiency of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Mr Bi Jun Sheng; Vice-Director of GDEIC, Ms Bi ZhiJian, and about 300 representatives from governments, trades and industries and enterprises of both Hong Kong and Guangdong.
48 enterprises which have been actively participating with good performance were awarded the commendation of “Hong Kong -Guangdong Cleaner Production Partner (Manufacturing)” to encourage them to make their continuous effort in adopting cleaner production practices. To appreciate the achievement in promoting cleaner production, 3 sourcing enterprises were also granted the commendation of “Hong Kong - Guangdong Cleaner Production Partner (Supply Chain)".
The awardees of the Scheme have completed over 500 Cleaner Production improvement measures, approximately reducing electricity consumption of 32 million kWh, 28 thousand tons of CO2 emission and 1,200 tons of VOC emission annually.
"The figures only represented the effort of about 50 enterprises adopting Cleaner Production practices in a short period of time. There were about 50 thousand Hong Kong-owned factories in the Pearl River Delta region. Their capacity of energy saving and emission reduction is remarkable,” said Mr Edward Yau in the awards ceremony.
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| The Presentation Ceremony was held in Zhu Jiang Hotel in Guangzhou | Mr. Lin Ying, the Deputy Secretary General for Guangdong Province |
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Mr. Edward Yau, the Secretary for the Environment of HKSAR |
Awarded the trophies of Hong Kong-Guangdong Cleaner Production Partners |