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This study is based on the practice of cleaner production (CP) audits in more than 300 enterprises. After reviewing 1484 CP options, it is found that 82.5% of the options are directly and indirectly related to management. Moreover, there are common problems such as the poor sustainability of CP audit results. This shows that enterprise management plays a significant role in implementing CP options. Based on these, this study proposes a new concept of cleaner production management (CPM) system, and draws lessons from the modern environmental management theory and method to establish the framework of CPM system. This system combines the theory and method of CP with the management system of enterprises and presents the CPM requirements in the current enterprise management system, which mainly includes CPM responsibilities, CP objectives, CPM indexes, CP energy resources management, CP process control, CP product management, CPM inspections, and CP performance evaluation. The characteristic of the proposed system is to construct a modern information-based CPM system. With highly systematic, concise structure, and easy operability, this system not only simplifies and improves the CP work in enterprises and reduces several tedious tasks such as document preparation, but also enhance the enterprise management efficiency and motivate the willingness of employees to participate in CP. Innovated and developed for CP implementation, the system has been implemented and applied in Chinese enterprises, and the implementation and application have obvious effects on improving production level as well as environmental and economic benefits.
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The authors would like to thank the related companies for implementing the CPM system.
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This work was financially supported by the State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization Open Project Fund (RERU2021010) and Postdoctoral Research Special Assistance Fund of Sichuan Province.
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Han Yu: idea, methodology, and writing original draft. Yinglun Zhao: data curation, collection and analysis, and writing original draft. Nan Yang: article revision, formal analysis, and drawing. Zhicheng Pan: drawing and data analysis. Hongbing Yu: administration, writing and editing, and financial support.
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Yu, H., Zhao, Y., Yang, N. et al. Construction of cleaner production management system in China: mode innovation of cleaner production. Environ Sci Pollut Res 29, 17626–17644 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-16854-3
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