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The State Environmental Protection Administration and the State
Economic and Trade Commission recently issued a Circular, requiring
that various localities must, acting strictly in compliance with
the requirements of the Decision of the State Council on Some Questions
Concerning Environmental Protection, do a good job in the work regarding
that key State industrial polluting enterprises in areas under their
jurisdiction should meet the standard set for the discharge of major
pollutants, ensure that one policy is adopted for one factory, and
give guidance to and conduct management over different types of
enterprises in different districts, so that said polluting enterprises
fully meet the required standard within the specified time limit.
The deadline for reaching the standard is set in light of the time
for the fulfillment of technologically renovated projects now under
way, which should, in principle, not go beyond December 31, 2002.
According to the State Council's unified requirement, the principal
pollutants discharged by all of the country's industrial polluting
businesses should meet the pollution-emission standard by December
31, 2000. Due to various reasons, however, among the 520 major State
enterprises designated by the State Economic and Trade Commission,
some enterprises still failed to reach the standard as scheduled.
In view of the historical reasons of key State enterprises and their
roles played in the development of the national economy, with respect
to those key State businesses which failed to fulfill the task of
meeting the standard on schedule and had difficulty to suspend production
for rectification, the Circular explicitly states that various localities
may work out an enterprise-reaching-target plan in light of the
specific conditions of pollution-control projects or technologically
renovated projects, so that they should reach the set standard on
schedule.
The Circular requires that relevant government departments at various
levels should, after the above-said plan is approved, tighten supervision
and control over this type of enterprises, with emphasis being put
on implementation of the measures for reducing pollution discharge
and on progress of the pollution-control projects or technologically
renovated projects. Enterprises which fail to meet the set standard
within the specified time limit shall be resolutely dealt with according
to law.
(People's Daily 02/02/01)
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