Large desalination project starts running in north China


  • World
  • Thursday, 17 Dec 2020

SHIJIAZHUANG, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- A large desalination project, capable of producing 10,000 tonnes of freshwater from seawater per day, started operations on Wednesday in Tangshan City, north China's Hebei Province.

The thermal-membrane hybrid seawater desalination project, operated by Shougang Jingtang United Iron & Steel Co., Ltd., is hailed as an industrial breakthrough in the country's steel sector, a big consumer of water.

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