China's environmental changes to the overall improvement in environmental quality (fromChina News Network):
BEIJING, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) China Central Television news, three quarters of 2007, energy consumption per unit of GDP continues to decline, sulfur dioxide and chemical oxygen demand, two major pollutants decreased over the years for the first time double. ChinaEnvironmental Protection began deteriorating from pollution control to improve the overallquality of the environment changes.
Sources said China's "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" proposed unit GDP energy consumption by 20 percent, total emissions of major pollutants by 10% of the binding target. To achieve this goal in recent years, China implemented the "accountability" and "one-vote veto" a strongadministrative measures such as promoting energy conservation.
Sources said that 2006 and 2007 for two years, with a total investment of nearly 1.5 trillion yuan of 377 high-energy, high emission project approval is limited. Strictly control high energy consumption industries around the same time adjust the industrial structure, developing high-tech industry and the recycling economy project. In addition, economic leverage has also become an important means to promote energy conservation, last year, 553 high pollution, high energy and resource products, the export tax rebate cancellation, the green credit policyto make loans to 12 heavily polluting enterprises is limited.
News quoted Zhang Lijun, deputy director of the State Environmental ProtectionAdministration introduced, said the rapid economic growth and significantly increased the level of consumption under the premise of environmental protection and pollution reductionachieved positive progress, the national environmental protection and pollution prevention and control work shift began with the passive response active prevention and control,environmental protection work.