'10th Five-year Plan' for National Environmental Protection Approved

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'10th Five-year Plan' for National Environmental Protection Approved

It is learnt from State Environmental Protection Administration that the State Council has formally approved the "10th Five-year Plan" for National Environmental Protection.
The Plan includes the following main contents:

China's State Council has formally approved the "10th Five-year Plan" for National Environmental Protection. The Plan includes the following main contents:

Grasp the pollution-control work in the valley of the "three rivers and lakes" (the Huaihe, Haihe and Liaohe rivers and Taihu, Dianchi and Chaohu lakes), the control areas of pollution by acid rain and sulfur dioxide, as well as in the Bohai Sea area and Beijing Municipality, come to firm grips with the water pollution in the Three Gorges areas and the regions along the South-to-North Water Diversion Project; further intensify efforts to prevent and control pollution to the macro-environment, speed up the elimination of backward production technology and equipment, shut down enterprises causing heavy pollution within a specified time, with the emphasis placed on comprehensively preventing pollution to water and atmosphere, and pollution caused by garbage and noise in key cities, earnestly strengthen ecological construction and protection and curb artificial damages.

We should see to it that by the year 2005, the volume of pollutants discharged should be reduced by 10 percent from 2000, the worsening tendency of the ecological environment be initially checked, urban and rural environmental quality, particularly the environmental quality of large and medium-sized cities will be improved.

Pollution Cleaning of Enterprises of Prefectural (And Above) Level

Source From Report of Environmental Protection Work During Ninth Five-Year Plan Period

item	unit	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
waste water
industrial discharge volume	100m ton	221.9	205.9	188.3	171.2	160.8
industrial disposal rate	%	76.8	81.7	84.7	88.2	91.1
standard rate of industrial discharge	%	55.4	59.1	61.8	67.0	72.1
waste gas
handling rate of smoke, dust from fuel burning	%	89.7	90.0	90.4	91.5	90.4
purifying rate	%	70.8	75.0	79.4	79.9	82.6
sulfur dioxide discharge	10,000 ton	1405	1364	1363	1210	1078
industrial soot discharge	10,000 ton	838	758	685	680	557
industrial dust discharge	10,000 ton	639	562	548	506	458
industrial solid waste
discharge	10,000 ton	2242	1690	1549	1821	1154
utilization rate	%	42.9	43.0	45.6	48.3	51.7
economic benefits of comprehensive utilization
output value of products of waste utilization	100m y	203.6	224.8	208.4	236.4	218.0
profits	100m y	52.7	44.8	43.6	44.3	46.5

By PD Online staff member Du Minghua

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