中美的新能源合作取得进步

 　　Ecolab Inc., an American global provider of clean energy technologies and services, has made great progress on helping² industries in China to produce their goods with less water consumption.

　　Those industries include dairy plants, food industries, steel mills, paper mills and a great number of energy firms.

　　The company has grown 10 times larger for the last 5 years in China.

　　Christophe Beck, the Executive Vice¹ President of the firm, talks about how green technologies are successful in China's paper industry.

　　中美的新能源合作取得进步

　　"If we take the paper industry, for instance, which is a big one in China. We've brought our technologies to purify the water to produce better paper and afterwards we purify the water that comes out from the paper mill, and we recycle it within the paper mill which helps paper mill produce with much less water."

　　He also says water treatment and food safety are the two biggest fields in which they will cooperate with China.

　　"The first one is water treatment and helping companies produce with no net water intake³, we recycle everything. The second one is food safety, we can help the food and beverage⁴ industry to produce safer food."

　　Another company, McWong Environmental Technology, has been promoting ZLD, or Zero Liquid Discharge, to solve the waste water issue in some Chinese industries.

　　The main idea is to reuse the solid waste, turning it to a useful industrial product.

　　In this way, they will recycle all of the material from waste water treatment.

　　Alex Ping Zhang, President of the company, says he's quite pleased with the cooperation with China.

　　"Many Chinese companies now have better understanding the needs and have a very high social responsibility, and are also required by new environmental law, so cooperation we getting from counterparts are very good."

　　He adds that the company's goal is to save money, land, energy, manpower, and eventually to produce affordable⁵ ZLD projects for Chinese clients.

　　For one of the ZLD projects, they're cooperating with ChinaCoal Mengda New Energy Chemical Company Limited in Inner Mongolia. This project is now under the commissioning stage.

　　Another project with China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs⁶ Corporation is still in operation.

　　For CRI, I'm Xie Cheng.

1 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

2 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

3 intake   

n.吸入，纳入；进气口，入口

参考例句：

• Reduce your salt intake.减少盐的摄入量。
• There was a horrified intake of breath from every child.所有的孩子都害怕地倒抽了一口凉气。

4 beverage   

n.(水，酒等之外的)饮料

参考例句：

• The beverage is often colored with caramel.这种饮料常用焦糖染色。
• Beer is a beverage of the remotest time.啤酒是一种最古老的饮料。

5 affordable   

adj.支付得起的，不太昂贵的

参考例句：

• The rent for the four-roomed house is affordable.四居室房屋的房租付得起。
• There are few affordable apartments in big cities.在大城市中没有几所公寓是便宜的。

6 foodstuffs   

食物，食品( foodstuff的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Imports of foodstuffs accounted for a small proportion of total imports. 食物进口仅占总进口额的一小部份。
• Many basic foodstuffs, such as bread and milk, are tax-free. 许多基本食物如牛奶和面包是免税的。