Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ("MIIT") has released the Announcement [2017] No.40 to publish the Catalog of Advanced and Applicable Technical Equipment for the Comprehensive Utilization of National Industrial Resources (the "Catalog").
The Catalog comprises 36 types of technical equipment for the comprehensive utilization of solid wastes, including "cleaner production technologies for complicated multi-metal materials", and another 36 kinds of advanced and applicable technical equipment for the recycle of renewable resources, such as "technologies to smash metal wastes in an efficient and energy-saving manner". In particular, the Catalog specifies the technical introduction, resources and environmental indicators, economic indicators, intellectual property rights of technologies, and technical application and prospects for each technical equipment. The waste paper acceptance check management system based on the internet of things, for example, is largely made up of the following units, including the regulation of unmanned weighing, records of random sampling, supervision and inspection of foreign matters contained in waste paper, back-stage monitoring and data analysis, with its efficiency ten times higher than the traditional method, where waste papers are unpacked to measure its water content through drying.