Lately, China Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Group (CECEP) received a banner from Huoshenshan Hospital, a medical facility dedicated to treating COVID-19 patients in Wuhan, which bears words reading “The military and civilians fight the epidemic hand in hand while performing duties of environmental protection.” During the coronavirus outbreak, CECEP undertook the emergency mission to clean up and treat medical waste for Huoshenshan Hospital, making remarkable contributions to guaranteeing smooth and safe operation of the hospital. 

As a centrally administered enterprise focusing on energy conservation and environmental protection, CECEP’s main business is closely related to epidemic prevention and control. After the outbreak of COVID-19, CECEP immediately formed an epidemic prevention and control leading group, with Chairman Song Xin as the head and CEO Yu Honghui as the deputy head. The group organized and mobilized more than 14,000 employees from 98 CECEP subsidiaries to fight the epidemic with their all strength. 

At the toughest time in the war against the epidemic, CECEP dispatched a team from its subsidiary CECEP Ecological Environment Protection Industrial Co., Ltd. to rush to Wuhan, with an aim to ensure timely, efficient collection, transfer and disposal of medical waste that grew with each passing day and relieve the city’s pressure from medical waste disposal beyond its capacity. The team completed the construction of Wuhan Medical Waste Treatment Center within 14 days, which would usually take at least six months. It was also responsible for the treatment center’s subsequent operation and maintenance. Through collecting and disposing of medical waste from across Wuhan in a timely manner, it effectively prevented “secondary contamination,” fulfilling the important mission assigned by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the Party committee of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, and the municipal government of Wuhan, and creating the “CECEP speed” in the construction of a medical waste treatment project in the new era.