The Ministry of Finance and Commerce Department recently gave the go-ahead to four companies to begin developing large renewable-resource recycling bases, giving Hebei province nine large regional renewable resource and recycling bases at the national level.

Each base will get 5 million yuan ($0.8 million) in financial support for construction work and building commodity exhibition zone, trade zone, sorting and processing zone, and distribution and service zone.

The four companies are the Xushui Steel Furnace Burden Co Ltd, Hejian Qiaolian Steel Co Ltd, Gu’an Rufeng Metal Purchase and Sales Co, and Avic Shangda Metal Regeneration Technology Co.

The Finance Ministry and the Commerce Dept published a “Renewable resource recycling system construction” notice for 2012, which calls for continued government support for selected cities in developing renewable resource recycling systems.