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Various forms of ecological protection activities and environmental
projects were launched around China Tuesday, as the country marked
the World Environment Day.
Beijing's largest industrial pollution treatment project, the Beijing
Thermoelectricity Plant desulfuration renovation, kicked off construction
Tuesday.
The 200-million-yuan project is expected to reduce the discharge
of sulfur dioxide by the plant by some 10,000 tons annually upon
its completion by the year 2002.
The project was undertaken by the Beijing National Electricity
Environmental Protection Engineering Co. through public bidding.
It was the first such desulfuration project undertaken by a Chinese
state-owned company.
The thermoelectricity plant is the major power and heating provider
in the national capital, and also a big polluter, producing 30 percent
of coal emission and 40 percent of sulfur dioxide discharge in the
Shijingshan District.
Meanwhile, a regional ecosphere recovery drive is being carried
out in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei Province. The project, with the
focus on adjusting industrial distribution and technological upgrading,
will make sure that some 27,060 industrial producers in the region
stick to the state-required pollution discharge standards.
Facing a severe water shortage, Hebei is making the cleaning up
of water pollution another priority item. As a part of the project,
reforestation and eco-agriculture programs will enable the green
coverage rate to reach 19 percent, and involve the establishment
of 12 ecology reserves covering 12.86 ha.
In Tianjin, volunteers organized street consultation and publicity
campaigns on environmental knowledge. Two garbage- collecting boats
donated by an environmentalist attracted a large audience on the
Haihe River, which runs through the city.
Environmentalists in Guizhou Province in southwest China called
on the public to show concern for wildlife habitats. So far, the
province has some 100,000 registered youth volunteers, who have
taken part in an activity to protect Caohai Lake, a black-necked
crane habitat in the province.
In Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, an ecological
Internet portal was opened to mark World Environment Day. The Website
offers information on green consumption, environmental business
services and related news and technology.
Zhou Shiwu, a retired worker in Sichuan, was given the "Earth
Award" today by the Friends of the Earth, an environmental
protection organization based in Hong Kong.
Zhou has spent eight years conducting independent research on breeding
four of the world's 10 most endangered fish species, including the
Chinese sturgeon and paddlefish.
(People's Daily 06/06/2001)
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