On December 30, the commissioning event of the Shenzhen Ecological Demonstration Park for the Energy Utilization of Sludge was held at China Resources Haifeng Power Plant. As the world's largest full volume sludge disposal project through coupling and mixed-burning, the Project boasts a mixed-burning disposal capacity of 6,000 tons per day (calculated at 80% moisture content), which will completely crash the daunting conundrum of "sludge-besieged city" of Shenzhen, push forward the construction of "no-waste" Shenzhen, and help the Greater Bay Area stay on a sound, sustained and steady track.

The Project, located in the Haifeng Power Plant in the Shenzhen-Shantou Special Cooperation Zone, is an joint effort of China Resources Power and CEEP, covering a total area of 20,000 square meters. It disposes of sludge in "a whole chain and full closed-loop" using sludge coupling and mixed-burning technologies to make civil sludge "innocuous, recyclable and resource-based". The extremely high furnace temperature of the first MW ultra-low emission unit of China Resources Haifeng Power Plant in Guangdong Province that the Project relies on enables pollutants to be eliminated more completely and energy to be converted more effectively. The emission concentration of dioxins is well below the international emission standards, and the emissions of nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, and dust are also below the international emission standards.

According to information, as of the end of 2019, Shenzhen had been up to standard in the water quality of all the five major rivers, being the first in China to eliminate black and odorous water across the city. That said, due to the limitations of land resources and environmental carrying capacity and the neighboring effect, Shenzhen struggled with local sludge disposal, and was dependent on remote disposal for a long time with its own insufficient capability of disposal. China Resources Power actively cooperated with the Shenzhen Municipal Government in fully exploring a "new path" of sludge treatment and disposal, and finally found a technological path and innovative model of super-large urban sludge disposal-"deep dehydration in the factory + mixed-burning".

Huang Min, Member of the Standing Committee of Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee, Tang Yong, President of China Resources Power, Huang Qiang, Deputy Secretary-General of the Municipal Government, Chan Yaodong, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Shenzhen-Shantou Special Cooperation Zone, Huang Weiping, Director of the Management Committee, Hu Jiadong, Director of the Municipal Water Affairs Bureau, and Li Shuisheng, Director of the Municipal Ecological Environment Bureau attended