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https://scmp.com/article/543251/opportunities-flow-chinas-water-saving-plan

Opportunities to flow from China's water-saving plan

Five-year plans are one of the few remnants of Stalinist state planning still embraced in China. But while they no longer micro-mandate production levels, there is no small irony in the fact that these central growth goals are increasingly important to cutting-edge capitalists looking for the next big China play.

One such investment theme emerged from last month's political conclave in Beijing: water. Specifically, China aims to reduce nationwide water consumption per unit of industrial value by 30 per cent over the next five years.