en.Wedoany.com Report on Mar 21st, Recently, Estelle Brachlianoff, CEO of Veolia Group, arrived in Beijing to attend the 17th Beijing Mayor's International Business Leaders Advisory Council. This marks her third visit to China within six months, demonstrating Veolia's firm commitment to deepening its presence in the Chinese market and actively participating in the green transition outlined in the "16th Five-Year Plan".
As the only Fortune Global 500 company with environmental services and resource management as its core business, Veolia has been a member of the Beijing Mayor's International Business Leaders Advisory Council since 2002, making it one of the earliest Global 500 companies to join this mechanism.
Contributing International Expertise to Beijing's Ecological Governance
At this critical juncture of formulating the "16th Five-Year Plan", Brachlianoff engaged in in-depth discussions with the Beijing municipal government and key partners during the council meeting, drawing on Veolia's extensive and cutting-edge practices in ecological governance for megacities worldwide.
Brachlianoff pointed out that Veolia can leverage its multiple advantages to support Beijing in becoming a global benchmark for green innovation:
Firstly, shifting from single-point governance to systematic collaboration to promote integrated management solutions;
Secondly, collaboratively addressing complex pollution to enhance overall governance effectiveness;
Thirdly, empowering intelligent decision-making through digital means to improve refined management levels;
Finally, fostering long-term cooperation through partnership-based business models to achieve joint governance.
Building on this, Brachlianoff also offered several professional suggestions on topics such as zero-carbon park construction, new pollutant management, and carbon reduction in the digital industry: first, reducing the environmental footprint of emerging industries and the digital economy; second, strengthening systematic governance and closed-loop management of new pollutants; third, building an energy system centered on renewable energy; fourth, promoting an industrial cooperation ecosystem for green innovation to foster synergistic development among multiple stakeholders.
Diverse Cooperation, Deepening Local Roots
During her stay in Beijing, Brachlianoff maintained a packed schedule: she held in-depth meetings with multiple partners including Tsinghua University, China Resources Recycling Group, Guangzhou Science City, and Michelin, and facilitated the implementation of several strategic collaborations.
Regarding industry-academia-research collaboration, Veolia continued and expanded its long-term partnership with Tsinghua University: the two parties renewed the scholarship agreement for the School of Environment, continuing to support the cultivation of future talent in China's environmental protection sector; simultaneously, Veolia also signed a Letter of Intent with Tsinghua University's Institute for Carbon Neutrality, focusing on frontier areas like low-carbon technologies to drive innovation and commercialization of research outcomes.
In supporting regional green and low-carbon development, Veolia held discussions with China Resources Recycling Group to deepen cooperation in the circular economy. Veolia China signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Resource Plastics, focusing on advancing demonstration projects for waste plastic recycling and jointly building a full-industry-chain platform and channels.
Veolia formally signed a joint venture cooperation agreement with Science City (Guangzhou) Investment Group Co., Ltd., deepening cooperation in industrial flue gas treatment and further empowering the green transition of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Veolia continues to provide professional water management services for its industrial client Michelin's operations in China, helping them achieve their sustainable development goals.
Through the signing of this series of important cooperation agreements, Veolia has once again demonstrated its long-term commitment to being "In China, For China".
The determination to deepen its presence in the Chinese market is also reflected in solid performance and investment. According to Veolia's 2025 annual performance report, the Group's annual revenue reached €44.4 billion (approximately 360 billion RMB), setting a new historical record. Over the past two years, Veolia's business in China has continued to grow, re-entering a stable development trajectory and becoming a key growth driver for the Group's Asian operations.
Meanwhile, over the past year, Veolia has continued to increase its investment in China, with newly added contracted foreign capital exceeding 1 billion RMB. It has also established a Global Water R&D Center and a large-scale membrane production plant, integrating deeply into China's green transition process through localized deployment.
Anchored in the "16th Five-Year Plan", Comprehensively Driving the Green Transition
"China is not only a crucial market for Veolia's global development strategy but also an innovation engine. The Group will continue to deepen its roots in China, implementing the GreenUp strategy through the deep integration of global solutions with local needs, and fully supporting China's 'Dual Carbon' goals.
We firmly believe that combining Veolia's global technical expertise with China's rich application scenarios will not only create value for the Chinese market but also jointly set new global benchmarks for environmental governance."
—— Estelle Brachlianoff
CEO, Veolia Group
In response to the rapid development of China's emerging industries such as new energy and artificial intelligence, Veolia is fully leveraging its technological expertise in resource synergy management to provide one-stop services ranging from renewable energy and water cycles to solid waste resource recovery and carbon capture.
In the future, Veolia will continue to expand its investment and presence in China, deeply integrating into the green transition process of China's "16th Five-Year Plan". Through deeper innovative technology deployment and closer strategic partnerships, Veolia will comprehensively implement its GreenUp growth strategy, continuously contributing wisdom and strength to the sustainable, high-quality development of China's economy and society.
