Wang Hualiang, vice mayor of Yixing City, Jiangsu Province, has told local media that the city is building an environmental protection public service Internet platform in China.

According to Wang, the new Internet service mainly relies on Yixing International Environment Protection and Technology Data City, Yixing Environment Technology Industrial Park and the surrounding environmental protection industries. It aims to provide information, transactions, research and display services for environmental enterprises at home and abroad.

"Solid industry base serves as a premise for us to create this platform and we've worked out preferential policies to support the development of the platform," says Wang.

At present, there are more than 1000 environmental protection companies in Yixing. The equipment manufacturing output value of these companies has accounted for one-third of that of Jiangsu Province and over one-tenth of China's total.