This Action Plan on the Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution is a cross-sectoral national policy. The broad aim of the Action Plan is to improve China’s overall air quality within five years. Other aims include a significant reduction in smog days and a dramatic improvement in regional air quality. Targeted regions include Bejing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangzi River Delta and Pearl River Delta. The Action Plan sets 2017 as the achievement date for two major goals: a 10 percent reduction in concentrations of large particulate matter in major cities; up to a 25 percent decrease in concentrations of fine particulate matter in targeted regions. The Action Plan sets out measures to address specific problems or further certain goals, including: 1. Increase the effort of comprehensive control, reduce multi-pollutants emissions; 2. regulating the use of small coal-fired boilers 3. accelerating desulfurization, de-nitrification and dust removal 4. retrofit projects in key industries 5.improving the quality of fuels 6. controlling urban dusts 7. eliminating high polluting yellow-sticker vehicles and old vehicle 8. Adjust and optimize the industrial structure, promote industrial upgrading and restructure 9. regulate new capacities in high energy consuming and high polluting industries 10. accelerate the elimination of backward productivity in 21 key industries, such as iron and steel, cement, electrolytic aluminium, glass, et cetera.
Chine · 2013-09-10