Quang Ninh is a locality with industrial production activities that are ranked in the top of the country, with many coal mines, cement factories, thermal power plants, ceramic factories, industrial parks and processing for export. At the same time it maintains a policy of balancing between the economy, the environment and the people living there.
The Department of Natural Resources and Environment of Quang Ninh province is always interested in protecting the environment, monitoring waste sources from business units, promoting the installation of automatic monitoring stations, especially on so called “hot” points in the area and this all means there are currently nearly 148 monitoring stations installed.