Recently, Tian Weiyong, director of the Environmental Supervision Bureau of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, announced that the strengthened supervision and inspection of air pollution prevention and control in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and surrounding areas requires that all enterprises that cannot be upgraded and remodeled be banned and closed. He said, "There are no procedures, no treatment facilities, and 'scattered and polluted' three-no enterprises that do not meet the discharge standards should not exist anywhere."

Conch Cement released a bright first-quarter performance forecast announcement. In the first quarter, the company expects to make a net profit of 4.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 120%. Huaxin Cement is growing more rapidly than Conch Cement. That night, the company announced that it expects a year-on-year growth rate of 420% to 470% in the first quarter. Some people in the cement industry said that the entire industry has ushered in a year with better benefits. "It is said that last year was the best in history. It seems that this year may be even better than last year."

Recently, environmental protection listed companies have successively released their 2017 performance annual reports. Although more than 70% of the companies are expecting good news, the phenomenon of performance differentiation has become more prominent. In addition, the "small scattered" pattern of the entire environmental protection industry is still prominent.
"The 13th Five-Year Plan for Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Industry Development" proposes to increase industrial concentration, cultivate a number of large-scale energy conservation and environmental protection enterprise groups with international competitiveness, and cultivate more than 100 backbone enterprises in key areas of energy conservation and environmental protection industries. From the perspective of experts and industry insiders, no matter from the perspective of policy orientation or the development of the industry itself, it is still the general trend to accelerate mergers and reorganizations in the environmental protection industry, and there will still be a wave of mergers and acquisitions in the future.