Aarkstore Enterprise - Environmental Protection in China

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(Free-Press-Release.com) November 8, 2011 -- Environmental Protection in China
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Accompanied with China’s spectacular economic growth and industrial production expansion, environmental problems are mounting, with water pollution and water scarcity burdening the economy, rising levels of air pollution endangering the health of millions of Chinese, and much of the country's land rapidly turning into desert.

Environmental protection industrialization started very late in China compared with developed countries. However, with rising environmental concerns from both domestic and global communities, Chinese government has realized the importance and urgency to improve its environmental protection, fully aware that pollution woes are impairing its economy, public health, social stability, and international reputation. It is now taking measures to balance its economy growth and environment protection, having released a series of laws, incentives, regulations and standards; requiring all production enterprises and construction projects to take actions, as most pollution are from production and construction.

Although environmental protection has been implemented all around the country, there are great variations in actual situation.
? First, enforcement varies largely in different regions. In the north of China, enforcement on waste water discharge requirement is very rigid, due to insufficient water resources and local government’s strong supervision. In contrast, in the east and south, many enterprises may discharge waste water without treatment, due to weak supervision from local governments.

? Second, the situation in large and small cities is different. Governmental supervision in large cities will be much more rigid than small cities and counties. If an enterprise wants to build a plant in large cities, it has to pass numerous environmental protection evaluations; while when the plant is set up in small cities or counties, there will be few checks from government institutions.

? Third, cost for environmental protection varies largely from industry to industry. For example, such investment needed in agrochemical and pharmaceutical industries is much higher than that in biotechnology industry, as production of pesticides and drugs generates much virulent waste which needs deep treatment before discharged. The government requires these producers to be equipped with waste water deep treatment facilities, which cost much more than the common ones needed by biotechnology enterprises which do not generate such virulent waste. Besides, cost of waste gas treatment is much higher than that of waste water. Generally, cost of a set of flue gas desulfurization equipment is 10 times as much as that of common waste water treatment equipment. Therefore, for energy producers, such as thermal power enterprises, larger investment will be needed in environmental protection than other enterprises having to deal with only waste water, as thermal power enterprises have to deal with much waste gas.

Under rising pressure to reduce environmental impacts caused by their operations, many enterprises have to invest more than before in environmental protection to meet governmental requirements. How are enterprises in China dealing with environmental protection problems? What are they doing to save cost and survive? There are great differences by region, industry, enterprise type, scale, etc.

Most enterprises in China have their own methods to cope with environmental protection problem. Generally, those large state-owned and well-known foreign enterprises perform better in following the policies, building waste treatment projects according to related standards. For those small scale enterprises, however, they may just build simple waste treatment facilities to pass the check while never use them for environmental protection purpose. Some small private enterprises don’t invest in water treatment at all, and set the plants in remote regions, where supervision from local government is loose as some short-sighted local governments may turn a blind eye to the pollution, for a faster GDP growth.
Table of Contents :
Executive summary
Introduction
I Environmental protection regulations in China
I-1 Analysis of national regulations
I-1-1 Overview of national environmental protection regulations
I-1-2 Description of key national regulation
I-1-2-1 Environmental Protection Law of the People's Republic of China
I-1-2-2 Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution
I-1-2-3 Enforcement Regulations for Law on Prevention of Air Pollution of the People's Republic of China

I-1-2-4 Law of the People's Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Water Pollution
I-1-2-5 Rules for Implementation of the Law of the People's Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Water Pollution
I-1-2-6 Law of the People's Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Pollution from Environmental Noise
I-1-2-7 Law of the People's Republic of China on Prevention of Environmental Pollution Caused by Solid Waste
I-1-2-8 Cleaner Production Promotion Law of the People's Republic of China
I-1-2-9 Law of the People's Republic of China on Conserving Energy
I-1-2-10 Eliminate ineffective capacity task in 2010

I-1-2-11 Catalogue for the Guidance of Foreign Investment Industries (Amended in 2007)
I-1-2-12 Catalogue of Resource Comprehensive Utilization
I-1-2-13 Ordinance on the Collection and Management of Pollution Discharge Fee
I-1-2-14 Notice on declaration of 2010 central budget key pollution emission specific fund
I-1-2-15 Measures on the Administration of Key Water Pollutants Discharge Permit in Huaihe River and Taihu Lake valley
I-1-2-16 Notice on Printing and Distributing Proposal for Prevention and Control of Water Pollution of Huaihe River, Haihe River, Liaohe River, Chaohu Lake, Dianchi Lake and Upper and Middle Yellow River

I-1-2-17 Notice on Eliminating Outmoded Producers of Papermaking, Alcohol, MSG and Citric Acid
I-1-2-18 Notice on Eliminating Outmoded Production Capacity of Papermaking, Alcohol, MSG and Citric Acid
I-1-2-19 Notice on Further Strengthening Restriction of Saccharin Production and Sales
I-1-2-20 People's Republic of China Food Safety Law
I-1-2-21 Prevention and Protection Regulations for Entrophication in Lake and Reservoir
I-1-2-22 Production, Supervision and Management Rules for Food Additives
I-1-2-23 Management Measures for Food Additive Hygiene

I-1-2-24 Discharge Standards of Water Pollutants for Pharmaceutical Industry With Fermentation Products Category
I-1-2-25 Cleaner Production Standards for MSG Industry
I-1-2-26 Discharge standards for MSG industry
I-1-2-27 Industrial Pollutant Discharge Standard in Citric Acid Industry
I-1-2-28 Production and Exports Prohibition for Citric Acid Enterprises without Achievement of Discharge Standard
I-1-2-29 Guidance for Promoting Healthy Development of Corn Deep Processing Industry
I-1-2-30 Implementation Framework for Cleaner Production in Fermenting Industry
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