In 2026, China's manufacturing industry is undergoing a historic reform. At the end of September, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the 2026 Green Factory Recommendation and Dynamic Management Notice, expanding the recommended categories for the first time and introducing green supply chain leaders. The evaluation of green factories has officially transitioned to the new national standard GB/T 36132—2025, replacing the long-used 2018 version. Concurrently, the Ministry of Finance launched a national pilot for sustainable disclosure standards for enterprises, with Beijing, Suzhou, Shenzhen, and Shanxi taking the lead. Green and low-carbon practices are no longer just a promotional advantage for companies but have become a rigid threshold for securing orders, policy subsidies, and market access.

1. Transitioning from Enterprise-Level Greening to Full Industrial Chain Collaborative Carbon Reduction

The newly added green supply chain leader enterprises focus on central enterprises and industry chain leaders, with priority given to key manufacturing sectors such as machinery, automobiles, shipbuilding, electronics, light industry, and textiles. The evaluation criteria now extend beyond the green transformation within the enterprise's own production processes to encompass lifecycle-wide green management, requiring chain leaders to drive low-carbon upgrades for upstream and downstream SMEs. This means that supporting suppliers in automotive components, electronic parts, and mechanical processing will continue to face green qualification verification requirements from clients.

2、Suzhou takes the lead in implementation, incorporating ESG into procurement and state-owned enterprise assessment

As a national pilot city for sustainable disclosure, Suzhou has issued the "Action Plan for Promoting the Construction of Sustainable Development System in Suzhou City (2026-2028)", which sets four key tasks around standard construction, enterprise practice, scenario application, and ecological construction. The park provides financial support for enterprise information disclosure and green practices; The state-owned asset system is gradually incorporating ESG into the performance evaluation of state-owned enterprises; The finance department is promoting the inclusion of ESG ratings in the government procurement evaluation system, and points will be deducted directly in the bidding process if the environmental indicators do not meet the standards.

3、Hard indicator: compliant disposal of industrial wastewater

In the new version of the green factory and green supply chain evaluation system, resource efficiency and clean production are mandatory indicators. The water resource recycling rate, wastewater discharge concentration, and near zero discharge capacity are directly linked to the enterprise rating. For high water consuming manufacturing industries such as automobiles and new energy lithium batteries, wastewater resource utilization and near zero emissions are no longer simply bonus points, but are essential questions for companies to meet ESG disclosure requirements and maintain supply chain access qualifications.

4、JoyFaTechnology: Suzhou Local High Salt Wastewater Zero Discharge Solution Service Provider

Suzhou JoyFa Environmental Technology Corp.Ltd.is a professional force in solving the compliance problems of industrial wastewater locally. It has been deeply involved in the field of MVR evaporators and zero discharge of high salt wastewater for more than 20 years. It is a national high-tech enterprise, a national specialized and new "little giant" enterprise, and has been selected as a standardized enterprise for environmental protection equipment manufacturing by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. It has a wholly-owned subsidiary, Wuxi JoyFa Petrochemical Equipment.

Enterprises can provide an integrated solution of MVR evaporation system and zero discharge of wastewater, realizing the reduction and resource utilization of high salt wastewater, helping Suzhou manufacturing enterprises to sprint for green factory and green supply chain leading entity application, and connecting ESG compliance and carbon reduction paths.

The provincial recommendation for green factories and green supply chain leading enterprises in 2026 will end on October 30th, and the Suzhou sustainable disclosure pilot has entered the practical stage.

Three Soul Interrogation:

Can your water resource recycling rate meet the new national standard?

Has the wastewater discharge data been organized and can it be directly included in the ESG report?

Have upstream and downstream chain owners started requesting green compliance certificates?

There are no multiple-choice questions in this round of ESG exam, all are mandatory.

If you need an integrated solution for zero discharge of high salt wastewater and MVR evaporation system, please feel free to contact JoyFa Technology. With over 20 years of technological accumulation and the use of hard core environmental protection equipment, we have helped manufacturing enterprises steadily obtain green qualifications and successfully passed ESG comprehensive assessments.