Growing industry Billion dollar business with environmental protection

Status: 23.06.2021 10:45 a.m.

Environmental protection is increasingly becoming an economic factor, especially in manufacturing. According to the Federal Statistical Office, sales are increasing and hundreds of thousands of jobs have been created in Germany. Environmental and climate protection are increasingly proving to be a lucrative business for industry and service providers. As the Federal Statistical Office announced, the industry achieved sales of 73.6 billion euros in 2019, 3.1 percent more than in the previous year.

Three quarters of this was achieved in the manufacturing sector, first and foremost in mechanical engineering (22.1 billion euros), followed by electrical equipment (6.5 billion euros) and the manufacture of cars, trucks and buses – and parts for them (5.8 billion euros) Euro).

The construction and maintenance of apparatus for air pollution control has grown particularly strongly. Here sales climbed by more than a third to 10.5 billion euros. These were mainly products for exhaust gas and exhaust air treatment, such as catalytic converters. In the area of ​​electromobility (limited to cars, trucks and buses), sales of 2.5 billion euros were reported in 2019, 24 percent more than a year earlier.

Over 300,000 employees

Energy-saving drive and control technology, the construction of onshore wind turbines, the thermal insulation of buildings, and the renovation and construction of sewer systems also ensured business worth billions.

The growing importance of environmental protection for the German economy is also leading to the creation of new jobs, so-called “green jobs”. The number of employees who contributed goods or services to the industry was 305,000 in 2019. Compared to the previous year, the number rose by almost 16,000. More than two thirds of the employees in the sector were employed in manufacturing companies

Hanoi is the locality with the most people downloading the anti-epidemic application Bluezone Out of 33 million people using Bluezone, more than 20.58 million people have entered their phone number in the information on the application. The number of people providing phone numbers to the authorities has increased by nearly 1 million people compared to April 28, 2021. The two localities leading the country in the number of people downloading the Bluezone application are Hanoi (3.1 million people) and Ho Chi Minh City (2.83 million people). In the opposite direction, provinces like Dien Bien (70,500 people), Tuyen Quang (121,000 people), Yen Bai (130,000 people), … are the localities with the lowest number of people downloading Bluezone. Considering the percentage of population, Da Nang (43.7%), Hai Duong (40%), Hanoi (38.6%), Quang Ninh (37%), Bac Ninh (34%) are localities has the most number of Bluezoners. However, there is a fact that the number of people who download and actually use the Bluezone application is still a significant difference. In Hanoi, where the most people download Bluezone, the number of Bluezone accounts actually active is only 1.23 million, accounting for 40% of the total number of accounts. Meanwhile, in Ho Chi Minh City, the number of real Bluezone users (turn on Bluetooth for Bluezone to work) is about 1.1 million people, accounting for 38% of the total number of accounts. The same thing happened in Da Nang (40%), Hai Duong (38%), Quang Ninh (38%), Bac Ninh (39%), Hai Phong (38%), Thai Nguyen (38%) when not Which province or city has the number of people actually using Bluezone exceeding 50% of the population. Currently, Hanoi, Bac Ninh, Bac Giang, Vinh Phuc, Da Nang,… all have documents to encourage people to apply technological solutions such as electronic medical declaration and install Bluezone application to prevent , anti-epidemic. The Bluezone application is currently one of the five recommended technology solutions to prevent the spread of Covid-19. This is a low energy Bluetooth technology application solution. Smartphones with Bluezone installed can communicate with each other, recording close contact. The exposure history data will only be saved on the user’s mobile device. When there is a new infection and that person’s mobile phone has Bluezone installed, the contact history will be used to alert those who also have Bluezone installed and have been in close contact with the case. Bluezone can also help alert F2 people (close contact with F1). Bluezone warns if the user has been in close contact with someone infected with Covid-19, helping to reduce the risk of spreading in the community, helping people return to normal life.

Activities of management, administration, production, business and procurement of enterprises and people will be gradually changed, implemented through the digital environment. This also increases the risk of cyber attacks, especially attacks on digital data and the digital environment. To help users limit attacks and minimize damage in the future, Bkav has introduced anti-virus software version 2021, applying artificial intelligence to create a 5-layer protection system, helping businesses. and more secure users. Mr. Vu Ngoc Son, Bkav’s Vice President in charge of Anti Malware, said: “Bkav 2021’s 5-layer protection system provides comprehensive protection and does not leave any risk out. At the same time, the system is also equipped with centralized management features, periodic reports to help agencies, businesses and users always grasp general information, so they can be assured and actively participate. number converter ”. According to the manufacturer, Bkav 2021 is capable of detecting malware up to 99.9% as well as reducing the possibility of catching a clean file by approximately 0%, optimizing performance by 144% compared to the previous version. . Users who are installing Bkav antivirus software will be automatically upgraded to the new version.

Although the number of Chinese cars has skyrocketed, in fact, it is still ranked third, behind Thailand and Indonesia. In the first quarter of 2021, the country imported 35,360 complete cars, up 31.1% over the same period last year. According to statistics, in the first quarter of 2021, CBU imported cars from China into Vietnam increased 6 times over the same period last year. Photo source: Cong Luan newspaper Cars in complete units imported to Vietnam are mainly cars of the category “with 9 seats or less” and “trucks” – accounting for 92% of the total. In particular, the number of cars with 9 seats or less (small car) returned to Vietnam in the first quarter was about more than 23,000 units. In which, cars from Thailand and Indonesia account for 80% of the total import volume of the country. Thailand leads with 19,300 vehicles imported into Vietnam, an increase of 56% over the same period last year. Standing in second place, but the number of Indonesian cars decreased by 26% compared to the first quarter of 2020, reaching only 8,950 units. Indonesia is known as the country that exports cheap cars to Vietnam with some prominent names such as Mitsubishi Xpander, Suzuki XL7 … Meanwhile, besides passenger cars with low to mid-price prices, Thailand Lan also exports all pickup trucks sold in the Vietnamese market.

The average import price of Japanese pepper in the first two months of 2021 reached 4,754 USD / ton, up 7.7% over the same period in 2020. In which, the average import price of Japanese pepper increased from almost all major supply markets (excluding India).

The amount of pepper exported to Japan increased strongly in the first quarter of 2021

In the first 2 months of 2021, Japan increased its imports from a number of markets, including Vietnam. This is considered a good signal for Vietnam’s pepper exports in the context that exports to European and US markets are facing difficulties when the epidemic is still complicated.

Statistics show that, Japanese pepper imports from Vietnam in the first 2 months of 2021 reached 414 tons, worth approximately $ 2 million, up 44.3% in volume and 51.2% in value. prices over the same period in 2020.

Vietnam’s market share of pepper in total Japanese imports increased sharply from nearly 19.3% in the first 2 months of 2020, to over 28% in the first 2 months of 2021.