Municipal wastewater treatment in China: Development history and future perspectives

Jiuhui Qu1,2, Hongchen Wang1,3, Kaijun Wang1,4, Gang Yu1,4, Bing Ke5,1, Han‐Qing Yu6,1, Hongqiang Ren1,7, Xunhua Zheng1,8, Li Ji1,9, Wenwei Li6, Song Gao10, Hui Gong4
1Expert Committee for China’s Concept WWTPs, Beijing, China
2Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
3School of Environment and Nature Resources, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China
4School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
5Administrative Centre for China’s Agenda 21, Ministry of Science and Technology, Beijing, China
6CAS Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei, China
7School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
8North China Municipal Engineering Design & Research Institute, Tianjin, China
9School of Environment and Civil Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
10Jiangsu (Yixing) Institute of Environmental Industry, Yixing, China

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