Sino-Japan Cooperation for Environmental Protection, A Smooth Sailing

Sino-Japan Friendship Environmental Protection Center, funded by Japanese government four years ago, has brought its roles to show in guarding the research, training, monitoring and popularizing education and have achieved a series of results, which has thus won good appreciation from the State Environmental Protection Bureau and the Japanese government.

Over the past four years, the center has carried out many researches of significance in the field of strategies and policies, such as Environment and Trade, How to Control Industrial Pollution in Towns and suburbs, overall Decisions on Environment and Development, etc. Having provided the state with a lot of proposals and information for legislation of Environmental Law and relative policies the center has now become a research base on environmental strategy and policies.

In order to popularize the education on a harmonious development between human beings and nature the center has set up a network for environmental education and carried out a series of Green Activity in schools, thereby having made an active contribution to the protection of the earth.

In developing the technology of environmental monitoring, they've contributed a great deal of data materials and information on the prevention and treatment of water pollution and measures to be taken for acid rain control in the reaches of Huai River, Lake Tai, etc. Breakthrough achievements have likewise been made in the online monitoring for cases of emergency and ecological environment conditions. This has turned out, as we can see, to be a systematic work with the air quality to be reported daily in more and more cities in China.

In the four-year cooperation for environmental protection, the Japanese government has offered a lot of support both in technology and funds, having dispatched in succession 19 experts to take up a long-tern working and 52 to work short in China and providing equipment worth of 125 million yen. In addition, it has also received over 30 persons to have further studies in Japan. The center has made a promising achievement in the 74 items of cooperation between China and Japan.



By PD Online staff Yin Zhili


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