The Hailin Sewage Treatment Plant, the first county-level sewage treatment plant in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province with an investment of 130 million yuan, was put into operation recently after 16-month construction. The daily sewage treatment capacity is expected to reach 40,000 tons. The Ministry of Environmental Protection promised that some 280 billion yuan (US$41 billion) will be spent on sewage treatment in 90 percent of counties nationwide as part of the central government's 4-trillion-yuan economic stimulus package.