Category | ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION | Organ of Promulgation | The State Council | Status of Effect | In Force |
Date of Promulgation | 1998-01-12 | Effective Date | 1998-01-12 |
Category | ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION | Organ of Promulgation | The State Council | Status of Effect | In Force |
Date of Promulgation | 1998-01-12 | Effective Date | 1998-01-12 |
Official Reply of the State Council Concerning Acid Rain Control Areas and Sulphur Dioxide Pollution Control Areas |
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Appendix I: Acid Rain Control Areas
Appendix II: Sulphur Dioxide Pollution Control Areas
(January 12, 1998)
State Bureau of Environmental Protection:
We have received the Request of your Bureau for Approval of the Plan for
Delimiting Acid Rain Control Areas and Sulphur Dioxide Pollution Control Areas
(Huanfa [1997] No. 634). Our reply is hereby sent to you as follows:
1. We have approved the Plan for Delimiting Acid Rain Control Areas and
Sulphur Dioxide Pollution Control Areas in principle and Your Bureau can
promulgate the plan. We also approve the delimitation of acid rain control
areas and sulphur dioxide pollution control areas (Hereinafter referred to
“the two types of control areas”. See the appendices for the details).
2. The objectives of the two types of control areas: By the year 2000, the
industrial pollution sources discharging sulphur dioxide will have attained
the standard for discharging sulphur dioxide and a system for controlling the
total amount of discharged sulphur dioxide will have been practised; in
municipalities directly under the Central Government, capital cities of
provinces, cities as special economic zones, open coastal cities and major
tourist cities which are polluted by sulphur dioxide, the density of sulphur
dioxide in the environment air will have attained the national environmental
quality standards and the worsening of acid rain in the acid rain control
areas will have been alleviated. By the year 2010, the total amount of
discharged sulphur dioxide shall be controlled under the level of sulphur
dioxide discharged in 2000; the density of sulphur dioxide in the environment
air in cities shall have reached the national environmental quality standards
and sections of the acid rain control areas in which the precipitation has pH
value below 4.5 shall be obviously decreased by comparing with those in 2000.
3. It is prohibited to establish new mines with the coal bed having above
three percent sulphur contents. Those having already been established with the
coal bed having above three percent sulphur contents shall be step by step
ordered to cut down the output, suspend the production or close up. For the
construction or transformation of coal mines with above 1.5 percent sulphur
contents, coal washing facilities shall be set up correspondingly. Existing
coal mines shall be according to planning fitted with coal washing facilities
by stages and in groups. The sulphur contents of fuel coal and fuel heavy oil
in cities shall conform to the prescriptions of the local people’s governments
of cities.
4. Construction of any new coal-burning thermal power plant in urban areas
and suburbs of large or medium-sized cities is prohibited except for those
heat and power plants generating power by producing heat. For the construction
and transformation of power plants with fuel coal having above one percent
sulphur contents, desulphurization equipment shall be set up correspondingly.
Existing power plants with fuel coal having above one percent sulphur contents
shall take measures to reduce the discharge of sulphur dioxide before the year
2000, and shall be fitted with desulphurization equipment by stages and in
groups or take other similarly effective measures to reduce the discharge of
sulphur dioxide before the year 2010. Enterprises engaged in chemical
industry, metallurgical industry, building materials industry, nonferrous
metal industry and other industries causing serious pollution must be fitted
with technical facilities for treatment of waste gas or take other measures to
reduce the discharge of waste gas.
5. At the time of readjusting the industrial structure and the structure
of products, great effort shall be made to carry out cleaning production,
strengthen technological transformation, promote the saving and comprehensive
utilization of resources and lower the level of discharged sulphur dioxide in
real earnest.
6. The collection, administration and use of fees for discharging sulphur
dioxide shall be conducted conscientiously as required by the Reply of the
State Council Concerning Expanding Experiments of Collecting Fees for
Discharging Sulphur Dioxide (Guohan [1996] No. 24). Special funds for major
pollutant-discharging units to treat sulphur dioxide pollution shall not be
less than 90 percent of the discharge fees.
7. Local people’s governments concerned and departments concerned in
charge of electric power and coal shall, in accordance with the requirement of
this Reply, work out relevant planning and plans and take effective measures
in order to realize objectives and requirements of the two types of control
areas. Your Bureau should ensure the guidance over the prevention and control
of pollution in the two types of control areas and strengthen the
environmental monitoring, supervision and inspection.
Appendix I: Acid Rain Control Areas
Provinces, Autonomous
Regions and
Scopes of Control Zones
Municipalities (Impoverished Counties to Which
the State Gives
Directly under the Special Support
Are Exceptions)
Central Government
Shanghai Municipality Shanghai Municipality
Jiangsu Province Nanjing City, Yangzhou City, Nantong City, Zhenjiang
City,
Changzhou City, Wuxi City, Suzhou City, Taizhou
City
Zhejiang Province Hangzhou City, Ningbo City, Wenzhou City (urban
districts
and Ruian City, Yongjia County, Cangnan
County),
Jiaxing City, Huzhou City, Shaoxing City,
Jinhua
City, Quzhou City (urban districts and
Jiangshan
City, Qu County, Longyou County), Taizhou
City
Anhui Province Wuhu City, Tongling City, Maanshan City, Huangshan
City,
Caohu Prefecture, Xuancheng Prefecture
Fujian Province Fuzhou City, Xiamen City, Sanming City, Quanzhou City,
Zhangzhou
City, Longyan City
Jiangxi Province Nanchang City, Pingxiang City, Jiujiang City, Yingtan
City,
Fuzhou Prefecture, Ji’an City, Ganzhou City
Hubei Province Wuhan City, Huangshi City, Jingzhou City, Yichang
City,
Jingmen City, Ezhou City, Qianjiang City,
Xianning
Prefecture
Hunan Province Changsha City, Zhuzhou City, Xiangtan City, Hengyang
City,
Yueyang City, Changde City, Zhangjiajie City,
Chenzhou
City, Yiyang City, Loudi Prefecture, Huaihua
City,
Jishou City
Guangdong Province Guangzhou City, Shenzhen City, Zhuhai City, Shantou
City,
Shaoguan City, Huizhou City, Shanwei City,
Dongguan
City, Zhongshan City, Jiangmen City, Foshan
City,
Zhanjiang City, Zhaoqing City, Yunfu City,
Qingyuan
City, Chaozhou City, Jieyang City
Guangxi Zhuang Nanning City, Liuzhou City, Guilin City, Wuzhou City,
Autonomous Region Yulin City, Guigang City, Nanning Prefecture (Shanglin
County,
Chongzuo County, Binyang County, Heng County),
Liuzhou
Prefecture (Heshan County, Laibin County,
Luzhai
County), Guilin Prefecture (Lingchuan County,
Quanzhou
County, Xing’an County, Lipu County, Yongfu
County),
Hezhou Prefecture (Hezhou City, Zhongshan
County),
Hechi Prefecture (Hechi City, Yizhou City)
Chongqing Municipality Yuzhong District, Jiangbei District, Shapingba
District,
Nan’an District, Jiulongpo District, Dadukou
District,
Yubei District, Beibei District, Banan
District
as well as Wansheng District, Shuangqiao
District,
Fuling District, Yongchuan City, Hechuan
City,
Jiangjin City, Changshou County, Rongchang
County,
Dazu County, Qijiang County, Bishan County,
Tongliang
County, Tongnan County
Sichuan Province Chengdu City, Zigong City, Panzhihua City, Luzhou
City,
Deyang City, Mianyang City, Suining City,
Neijiang
City, Leshan City, Nanchong City, Yibin City,
Guang’an
Prefecture, Meishan Prefecture
Guizhou Province Guiyang City, Zunyi City, Anshun Prefecture, Xingyi
City,
Kaili City, Duyun City
Yunnan Province Kunming City, Qujing City, Yuxi City, Zhaotong City,
Gejiu
City, Kaiyuan City, Chuxiong City
Appendix II: Sulphur Dioxide Pollution Control Areas
Provinces, Autonomous
Regions and
Scopes of Control Zones
Municipalities (Impoverished Counties to Which
the State Gives
Directly under the Special Support
Are Exceptions)
Central Government
Beijing Municipality Dongcheng District, Xicheng District, Xuanwu District,
Chongwen
District, Chaoyang District, Haidian
District,
Fengtai District, Shijingshan District as
well
as Mentougou District, Tongzhou District,
Fangshan
District, Changping County and Daxing County
Tianjin Municipality Urban districts
Hebei Province Urban districts of Shijiazhuang City, and Xinji City,
Gaocheng
City, Jinzhou City, Xinle City, Luquan City
Urban
districts of Handan City, and Wu’an City
Urban
districts of Xingtai City, and Nangong City,
Shahe
City
Urban
districts of Baoding City, and Zhuozhou City,
Dingzhou
City, Anguo City, Gaobeidian City
Urban
districts of Zhangjiakou City
Urban
districts of Chengde City
Urban
districts of Tangshan City, and Zunhua City,
Fengnan
City
Urban
districts of Hengshui City
Shanxi Province Urban districts of Taiyuan City, and Gujiao City
Urban
districts of Datong City
Urban
districts of Yangquan City
Urban
districts of Shuozhou City
Xinzhou
City
Yuci
City
Linfen
City
Yuncheng
City
Inner Mongolia Urban districts of Huhhot City
Autonomous Region Urban districts of Baotou City, and Shiguai Mining
District,
Tumote Right Banner
Urban
districts of Wuhai City
Urban
districts of Chifeng City
Liaoning Province Urban districts of Shenyang City, and Xinmin City
Urban
districts of Dalian City
Urban
districts of Anshan City, and Haicheng City
Urban
districts of Fushun City
Urban
districts of Benxi City
Urban
districts of Jinzhou City, and Linghai City
Urban
districts of Huludao City, and Xingcheng City
Urban
districts of Fuxin City
Urban
districts of Liaoyang City
Jilin Province Urban districts of Jilin City, and Huadian City,
Jiaohe
City, Shulan City
Urban
districts of Siping City, and Gongzhuling City
Urban
districts of Tonghua City, and Meihekou City,
Ji’an
City
Yanji
City
Jiangsu Province Urban districts of Xuzhou City, and Pizhou City, Xinyi
City
Shandong Province Urban districts of Jinan City, and Zhangqiu City
Urban
districts of Qingdao City, and Jiaonan City,
Jiaozhou
City, Laixi City
Urban
districts of Zibo City
Urban
districts of Zaozhuang City, and Tengzhou City
Urban
districts of Weifang City, and Qingzhou City,
Gaomi
City, Changyi City
Urban
districts of Yantai City, and Longkou City,
Laiyang
City, Laizhou City, Zhaoyuan City, Haiyang City
Urban
districts of Jining City, and Qufu City, Yanzhou
City,
Zoucheng City
Urban
districts of Tai’an City, and Xintai City,
Feicheng
City
Urban
districts of Laiwu City
Urban
districts of Dezhou City, and Leling City,
Yucheng
City
Henan Province Urban districts of Zhengzhou City, and Gongyi City
Urban
districts of Luoyang City, and Yanshi City,
Mengjin
County
Urban
districts of Jiaozuo City, and Qinyang City,
Mengzhou
City, Xiuwu County, Wen County, Wuzhi County,
Bo’ai
County
Urban
districts of Anyang City, and Linzhou City
Urban
districts of Sanmenxia City, and Yima City,
Lingbao
City
Urban
districts of Jiyuan City
Shaanxi Province Urban districts of Xi’an City
Urban
districts of Tongchuan City
Urban
districts of Weinan City, and Hancheng City,
Huayin
City
Shangzhou
City
Gansu Province Urban districts of Lanzhou City
Urban
districts of Jinchang City
Urban
districts of Baiyin City
Zhangye
City
Ningxia Hui Urban districts of Yinchuan City
Autonomous Region Urban districts of Shizuishan City
Xinjiang Uygur Urban districts of Urumqi City
Autonomous Region