Capital Steel Promises to Reduce Smoke & Dust Pollution over 60% in Five YearsIn the coming five years, Capital Steel Corporation will invest 1.25 billion yuan to construct 17 key projects for environmental protection and for energy and water saving, including sewage treatment plants so as to reduce once again the smoke, powder dust and sulfur dioxide pollution by more than 60 percent. Luo Bingsheng, president of Capital Steel Corporation, promised solemnly at the first "Capital Steel Environmental Protection Festival" which has concluded recently.Since 1995, the Capital Steel Corporation, following a path from quality to benefit in its development, has laid its emphasis on developing non-steel hi-tech industries and canceled in succession more than 60 projects worth of over 10 billion yuan which tend to create environmental pollution. During the Ninth Five-year Plan period, the Capital Steel invested 906 million yuan for an overall treatment of the pollution produced in the process of iron and steel production. All the 53 units monitored by higher environmental protection authorities reached the standards for exhaustion. The factory area, which used to be permeated with black smoke, heavy dust and pungent smell, has taken a turn for the better. As compared with the pollution produced in 1995, the year 2000 resulted in reducing the pollution in the Capital Steel Corp. By that yearend, the Corporation has put a garden-style factory into shape, reducing smoke exhaustion by 72.3 percent, dust by 54.7 percent, sulfur dioxide, 62.9 percent, and chemical oxygen consumption, 55 percent, and petroleum, 62.2 percent. By 2005, the smoke exhaust volume of Capital Steel will be further reduced by 76.2 percent, with dust exhaust reduced by another 61.6 percent, and sulfur dioxide, 61 percent. By PD Online Staff Du Minghua |
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