Water-saving programs introduced by top Chinese tissue paper maker Vinda Paper (Zhejiang) Co Ltd – as well by water conservation agencies in Quzhou city in East China's Zhejiang province – recently received awards for being the top 10 excellent practical cases of water-saving action in the province in 2021.

Focusing on the working principals of "water saving is emissions reduction, water saving promotes efficiency", Quzhou has identified its local enterprises as the turning point – insisting on taking the road to water resources conservation and protection, which involves industrial development symbiosis and co-prosperity, to establish the city as a role model in water saving in Zhejiang.

Under the active guidance of the city's water conservatin department, Vinda Paper has been taking the path to green and high-quality development by giving priority to water saving. The annual water consumption from the output of its products has dropped from 8.13 cubic meters per ton in 2017 to 6.86 cu m/t in 2019, leading the industry water quota.

Achieving a reuse rate of over 95 percent for white water – waste water from the papermaking process – the company is saving 250,000 tons of water annually, with cost savings of nearly 600,000 yuan ($92,386) a year in water consumption.

The water consumption for the company's products has for some time reportedly been at the leading levels in the industry. On this basis, the company has continued to strengthen its water-saving management and pay attention to the cultivation of water-saving awareness, with the water consumption from its products decreasing year by year.

Quzhou – through its hard work in establishing water-saving agencies in the water conservation sector – has realized the standardization, institutionalization, intelligentization and fine management of water use. As a result, the annual water-saving rate of 30-80 percent has created a new paradigm in the water-saving development of Quzhou.