News from the Yellow River Conservancy Commission is that the commission will set up a water utility efficiency control line to enhance the management of water use and restrict the waste of water.

A foundation called the China Yellow River Conservation Foundation has been set up in Zhengzhou in central Henan province for the protection of the Yellow River.

Du Ying, the deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission of China, disclosed at a recent seminar that China will enhance the pilot program for the ecological environment compensation mechanism, in selected regions.

Maqu, a small town lying on the border of the Chinese provinces of Gansu, Qinghai, and Sichuan, is implementing a national ecology protection project — ecological migration — to protect the Yellow River.

The Second National Environmentally-friendly Project Awards Assembly and the Thirteenth Green China Forum were held recently in Beijing's Great Hall of People where ten projects were each named an official National Environmentally-Friendly Project.

Elion Chemical Industry Company in Inner Mongolia says it will virtually eliminate its wastewater discharge to the Yellow River using an advanced water reuse and wastewater evaporation system from GE Water & Process Technologies.