Tsinghua-Veolia Environment and Urban Management Advanced Program(EUMAP), a teaching program dedicated to Chinese officials, held the opening ceremony for its2011 seminar in Tsinghua University in Beijing on November 12, 2011.

Thirteen trainees from nine municipalities and provinces, including Beijing, Liaoning,Guangdong, Shanxi, attended the ceremony. Most of the trainees are municipal officials incharge of environmental protection work.

Launched in 2009, the EUMAP is a five-year program comprised by annual seminars, forums,trainings and on-the-spot investigations. The program is co-sponsored by School ofEnvironment of Tsinghua University and Veolia Environment Group China, which deals witheverything from wastewater to toxic waste.
"Through this joint program, Veolia will not only bring France's advanced technology but alsoexperience and ideas on environment and urban management to China," Luc Zeller, VeoliaEnvironment Service Asia CEO, told chinadaily.com.cn after the ceremony.

This year's curriculum includes pollution emission reduction during China's 12th Five-Year Planperiod (2011-2015), urban ecological civilization construction, environmental protectionindustry in economic crisis, waste treatment in France and Europe, etc.

Officials of relevant ministries, experts of Tsinghua University and national academicinstitutions, European environment experts as well as municipal experts will give lectures duringthis year's seminar.

Tsinghua University and Veolia Environment founded in 2010 the Joint Research Center forAdvanced Environmental Technology to further their cooperation on environment protectionresearch.

Over more than 10 years, Veolia has invested nearly $2 billion in China, having 62 waterdisposal, water conservancy management and energy source projects in 41 cities on themainland and in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao.

Source: China Daily