Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the country and the Industry and Information Technology Department of Liaoning Province respectively released the lists of the third group of outstanding "Little Giant" enterprises of the country and Liaoning Province and the list of enterprises of Liaoning Province with specialized, refined, unique or innovative products/technologies, and our company was in the above lists. Our successful pass of the accreditation by Panjin City, Liaoning Province and relevant departments of the country is due to the vigorous support from the Industry and Information Technology Department of Liaoning Province and our company's long-term development centered on specialized, refined, unique or innovative products/technologies. This is a full affirmation of us in the new stage of development. We will take this opportunity to continuously improve our environmental innovation system, our independent innovation ability and core competitiveness, and the influence of our brand, so as to provide more advanced innovative technologies, innovative products and high-quality professional services for environmental industry.
We are a high-tech enterprise of the state, which is always committed to providing whole-process solutions to industrial waste water, solid wastes and contaminated soil produced by petroleum, petrochemical and related enterprises, as well as urban domestic sewage. We are a leading environmental enterprise serving China's oil and gas fields, a major enterprise for China's environmental industry, a green manufacturing system solution provider and a conforming manufacturer of environmental equipment (waste water disposal) certified by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and an advanced enterprise of the state regarding intellectual properties. In addition, we have a laboratory run jointly with the Chinese Academy of Sciences for soil remediation, and an engineering laboratory on biological-physicochemical collaborative remedying technology for contaminated soil run jointly with the state. Our program Heavy Oil Produced Water Recycling Technology and Its Application involving our core technology won a second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award in 2008, which has filled in the domestic gap in this technology, and is in the lead internationally. Our projects Heavy Oil Produced Water Advanced Treatment and Units, and Water Treatment Technology for Refined Water Injection into Low-permeability Reservoir have been brought into the list of National Torch Program projects. Our treatment technologies for solid wastes and oily sludge, and soil remediation technology are all internationally advanced. Moreover, we are also in the leading position in China regarding our treatment technology for polymer-bearing waste water resulted from polymer flooding and its application, our in-depth recycling technology for high-salinity produced water and its application, as well as our recycling technology for waste water resulted from oilfield operations and its application.
It is pointed out in the Plan on Promoting SME Development (2016-2020) officially promulgated by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in 2016 that projects on fostering outstanding SME's should be launched to encourage their specialized and refined development, and support their unique and innovative development. Outstanding enterprises are defined as specialized, refined, unique and innovative enterprises.
It is proposed in the Circular on Supporting the High-quality Development of Outstanding SME's issued by the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology that the fostering of a group of outstanding "Little Giant" enterprises that are committed to subdivided markets, focus on main business, and have strong ability in making innovation and great potential for becoming highly competitive should be accelerated. In the part of overall implementing a strategy for building China into a leader in manufacturing in the outline of the 14th Five-year Plan, it says that projects on fostering leading enterprises should be launched to foster a number of leading enterprises with ecological leading force and core competitiveness, promote small enterprises to enhance their professional strength, and train outstanding " "Little Giant" enterprises and champion manufacturing enterprises in a single product.