Up to late November of 2006, 20 departments under the State Council and 26 provincial people's government had presented their feedback about the adoption of the Policy Recommendations of the Fourth AGM of CCICED Phase III. These government departments and provinces are National Reform and Development Commission (NDRC), Ministry of Education, Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Land and Resources, Ministry of Railway, Ministry of Communications, Ministry of Water Resources, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Commerce, People's Bank of China, State Assets Management Commission, General Administration of Customs, State Administration of Taxation, General Administration of Industry and Commerce, State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA), State Forestry Administration, Chinese Academy of Engineering, State Meteorological Administration, State Oceanic Administration and the government of Beijing, Tianjin,Shanghai, Chongqing, Hebei,Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, Liaoning Jilin, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Jiangxi, Shandong, Hubei, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Guizhou,Yunnan, Tibet, Shaanxi, Gansu and Qinghai.
Their feedback shows that relevant national departments and some local governments have actively studied and adopted relevant policy recommendations of CCICED and done lots of work based on their real conditions. In order to understand the work and progress on the adoption of such recommendations by each department and local government, CCICED Secretariat has sorted out their feedback.
National Reform and Development Commission in cooperation with relevant departments has carried out the compilation work on the Planning of National Main Function Areas and regional planning for the Yangtze River Delta and Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban areas. It has vigorously promoted the development of energy- and land-saving buildings, encouraged the development of integrated energy-saving transportation system and facilitated government departments to take the lead in saving energy. It has carried out overall reform on pricing of resources and made certain progress of the price reform in such fields as petroleum, natural gas, water and coal. It has developed the draft of the Law on Circular Economy. In addition, it in cooperation with SEPA and the Ministry of Science & Technology has launched the work on the first group of 82 national demonstration sites on circular economy. It is studying the possibility of setting up the producer extended responsibility system. In its special 11th Five-Year Plan for the Commercialization of High Technologies, it has added the component of the development of circular economy.
New progress has been made in basic education undertaking of Ministry of Education ¬¬- investment in education continues to rise with expanding scope and remarkable improvement of school conditions. National Meeting on Balanced Development of Compulsory Education was held in Chengdu in June 2006, where experts shared experience in education and the ministry fulfilled the plan of promoting balanced development of regional compulsory education. Ministry of Education also took related policy recommendations while formulating the Eleventh Five-year Plan for National Education Cause and Guidelines for Development of Education in China (2006-2020).
During the Tenth Five-year Plan period, the Ministry of Science and Technology has launched programs to tackle hard problems arising from the process of economic development such as environmental pollution, shortage of resources and construction of rural areas. Investment in science and technology added up to 700 million yuan, which was allocated for some major national programs including Control Technology and Treatment of Water Pollution, Environmental Pollution Control Technology in the field of resource and environmental technologies of "863" Program and Research on Countermeasures against Major Environmental Issues. The ministry has established a group of research & development platforms and industrialization bases for environmental technologies in the field of water body pollution control and developed many technical specifications and standards. The research results have generated a direct economic benefit of 1.5 billion yuan through production application, greatly promoting the upgrade of environmental technologies and the overall level of the industry. In the research process, emphasis has been put on saving of energy, water and materials, development of future energy and efficient use of resources. As a result, a set of technology, facilities and equipment has been developed to enhance land use efficiency and breakthrough made in the development of biomass energy, green batteries and electric vehicles of various types. We have seen much headway made in cost-effective exploration of oil, gas and mineral resources and comprehensive use of resources. Efforts are made in the demonstration and extension of water conservation technology applied in agriculture and industry, development and use of unconventional water resources, energy saving and material saving technology for architecture.
The Ministry of Finance maintains the proposed policy recommendations that call for compensation for areas where development is restricted or prohibited run counter to The Budget Law and the principles of related documents issued by the State Council. The Ministry has issued some transfer payment policies including general transfer payment, wage adjustment transfer payment and reform of rural taxes, etc. The distribution of transfer payment favors key ecological areas in the central and western part of China and the upper reaches of big rivers. Some major ecological projects like conservation of natural forest have been funded by national bond and compensation funds for ecological benefits of forests are established by the Central Government. Together with other related departments, the Ministry is actively promoting the reform on the payment for use of mineral resources, and has set up a responsibility system for environmental improvement and ecological rehabilitation of mining area. Pollution discharge fee is incorporated into the special fund for environmental protection, which is mainly intended for the treatment of key river basins and prevention and control of regional pollution. The use of vehicles has been restricted through related tax policies.
The Ministry of Land and Resources is organizing the investigation work on geothermal resources and carrying out the evaluation and zoning of national geothermal resources. It has organized and carried out the early evaluation and preparation work for the development of topic regulations on geothermal resources. It has carried out the investigation and evaluation work on ground water pollution in such regions as Beijing, Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou area, Huaihe River basin and Pearl River delta. It has further improved the groundwater monitoring network in Jilin and Heilongjiang. In addition, it has carried out the investigation and evaluation of groundwater pollution of major regions across China and the national investigation on groundwater of high incidence of endemic diseases and the demonstration projects on safe water supply. Focusing on the Songhua River watershed, it has done well the emergency monitoring and prevention of sudden groundwater pollution accidents and established the reserve system for groundwater resources.
The Ministry of Railways In order to meet the challenges of great increase of the demand for passenger and cargo transportation across China and huge demands for mega-city and inter-city passenger transportation due to rapid urbanization and the rising of people's living standard, the Ministry of Railways has actively organized the accelerated development of rapid mass passenger transportation system. It is expected that in 2010, there will be a rapid mass passenger transportation network centering on Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Wuhan and connecting all major big and medium sized cities across China with a total length of over 20,000 km.
The Ministry of Communications has implemented environmental impact assessment on the plan for communications and construction projects. Environmental inspection is made on engineering programs in an all-round way to effectively curb their impact on eco environment and environmental pollution. The ministry has committed to building a resource efficient and environment friendly communications industry by enhancing the utilization of land, coast line and sea route and making active efforts to develop and apply green communications technology. Promote the reuse of environment-friendly materials like pitch and cement and explore approaches to energy saving in order to establish a highway and waterway transport system, featuring low energy consumption, less use of resources, slight environmental pollution and low operation cost. In light of the guiding principle of coordinated development between urban and rural areas, the ministry optimizes the distribution of trans-municipal highway and city roadway and promotes an engineering aimed at integrating the transport system of cities and countryside. The ministry has promulgated measures on the management of rural highways, which will accelerate the pace of building rural highways. Innovation is reinforced in the communications system.
The Ministry of Water Resources has developed the integrated planning for water resources and the planning for safety guarantee of the urban drinking water sources across China. It selects Wuhan, Guilin, Laizhou and Wuxi as the trial sites for the protection and restoration of water ecological system. It has taken such measures as promotion of the end user price of water for agriculture purpose, expanded the collection scope of water resources fee, established the water right transaction market and guided the optimum distribution of water resources aiming at water saving with high efficiency. It has facilitated the approval of the zoning of water function areas within their jurisdiction of 26 provinces, autonomous region and municipalities directly under the State Council. In addition, it has implemented Environment Impact Assessment system in water resource construction projects.
The Ministry of Agriculture believes that the specific contents "understanding and estimating environmental self restoration capacity and carrying capacity of city surrounding areas in a scientific way and avoiding excessive use of farmland and green land" of CCICED Policy Recommendations has very important reference value for the protection of rural eco environment and guarantee of food security. It recommends that relevant departments emphasize this issue.
The People's Bank of China believes that the policy recommendations of CCICED on sustainable urbanization have positive significance.
The State Assets Management Commission during the process of developing the Outline of the 11th Five-Year Plan for the Development of the Enterprises of the Central Government requires the enterprises of under the administration of the Central Government to promote the development of circular economy and accelerate the withdraw from the industries and fields that waste resources and pollute the environment. With great efforts in implementing the reform of circular economy, a group of demonstration enterprises on circular economy have emerged. In addition, it has developed the Suggestions on the Guidance for the Distribution and Structure Adjustment of the Enterprises under the Central Government, which clearly requires that the enterprises under the Central Government stick to the path of new industrialization and promote the adjustment of product structure, technical structure and organization structure.
General Administration of Customs said, when relevant competent governments develop the policies and measures involving the work of customs, it would give active cooperation and support.
State Administration on Taxation re-examined the reform program on fuel tax and accelerated relevant work. In the principle of "Road users pay, the more you use, the more tax you pay", it controls the growth of private cars with the collection of fuel tax.
State Administration of Industry and Commerce has actively adopted the contents of the policy recommendations in relation to the administration of industry and commerce and facilitated the development of urbanization the saves resources. It has also taken such measures as strictly cracking down the enterprises making false or poor quality goods, ruling out the goods that waste resources and damage the environment, enhancing the publicity of the advertisement of environmental protection and actively created a harmonious social environment.
State Environmental protection Administration has developed the Zoning of National Ecological Function Areas and the Planning for National Key Ecological Function Protected Areas. It has carried out the development of national ecological demonstration sites on in 528 areas and units. Among them, 233 have been examined and accepted by the authority. It has carried out the establishment of ecological city (county, district) in over 150 areas. Right now it is developing the Interim Measures on the Management of the Publication of Environmental Information. SEPA and State Statistics Bureau have jointly issued the Report on the Study of Green GDP of China 2004. It has issued the Inventory of Environmental Protection Technologies Encouraged by the State Batch 1 and the List of the National Demonstration of Advanced Technologies on Pollution Control. In addition, it has developed the Regulations on Review Procedures for Clean Production of Key Enterprises. In addition, it has carried out the campaigns on the establishment of National Environmentally Friendly Enterprises and approved 32 such enterprises.
State Forestry Administration has vigorously carried out the development of urban forest, promoted the planning for the development of urban forests of typical regions and created ecological cities. In cooperation with the Commission on Environment and Resources of National People's Congress, it has finished the investigations for the development of laws and regulations at home and abroad and drafted the Law on Protected Areas (Proposed version). It has initiated the development of six national key forestry projects. It has finished the draft of the Regulations on the Conservation of Wetlands. In addition, it has held policy workshops and training courses on urban forestry.
Chinese Academy of Engineering Sciences has incorporated relevant contents of the Policy Recommendations into the consultancy and research work of the institute.
State Meteorological Administration does not have any objections.
State Oceanic Administration has organized local costal authorities to reexamine the warning water level of hazardous tides to address the problem of sea rising. It has regularly issued the Bulletin on Sea Level of China and finished the development of the Emergency Preparedness Plan for the Disasters of Storms， Tsunami and Sea Ice.
Beijing Municipal Government has organized the formulation of the plan for areas restricted from development. It will carry out the study on Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban system. It has issued and implemented the Measures of Beijing on Saving of Water Resources. With the revision of water use quota of major industries and agriculture, it has reduced the water demand for more than 20%. The popularization rate of water saving devices of the institutions and households has reached 90% and 77% respectively. The recycling rate of industrial water has reached 91%. Seventy percent of urban sewage has been under appropriate treatment and 30% of them reclaimed. It will issue the Implementation Rules on the Interim Measures for the Review of Clean Production and Projects on Clean Production. It has finished the review of clean production of 100 enterprises and the technical reform of 10 enterprises. It has issued the Guideline of Beijing on Energy and Water Efficiency (2005) that provides the reference data on energy and water efficiency of 188 sub-types of 39 types of industries. It has increased environmental input year on year with total amount of 72 billion yuan during the 10th Five-Year Plan period.
Tianjin Municipal Government has adjusted its overall city planning in terms of the nature and size of the city, stressing coordinated development in regional context covering Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei Province. With various means to tap new sources and reduce consumption, the city has seen its GDP grow by 13.9% annually on average during the 10th Five-year Plan period, while the energy consumption only increased by 8.1%, 5.8 percentage points lower than GDP growth rate. Annual water consumption dropped by 2.9% on average. Wastes are collected and reused comprehensively and more emphasis is put on the saving of energy, water and material. Resource efficient and environment friendly demonstration zone is established in Binhai New District. The city has launched the campaign to build NMCEP. In 2005, the number of days with air quality reaching Grade II amounted to 298, an increase of 127 days compared to that of 2001. And water quality in all the drinking water source areas has maintained the record of meeting related standard. Vegetation coverage has increased to 36.4% from 26% in 2001, urban sewage treatment rate and innocuous disposal rate of domestic refuse have reached 71.6% and 80.3% respectively. Research has been made to establish a mechanism of sustainable urbanization that encourages public participation and information sharing.
Shanghai has basically formed a stable regional planning cooperation mechanism with Jiangsu Province and Zhejiang Province. Shanghai Municipal Government has developed and implemented the Regulations of Shanghai on the Protection of Historic Cultural Heritages and Excellent Historic Buildings. The comprehensive energy consumption of GDP per 10,000 yuan has decreased from 3.28 t coal equivalent in 1992 to 0.88 ton coal equivalent in 2005. Among them, energy consumption during the 10th Five-Year Plan period has reduced by 16.5%. Shanghai authority has seriously streamlined economic development zones with a reduction of 55% of the total amount of such development zones, realizing 37.9% reduction of the planned land use. Water consumption of 10,000 yuan GDP went down from 238 m3 in 2000 to 125.3 m3 in 2005. The reuse rate of industrial water has reached 80.9%. The consumption of fly-ash has exceeded the annual generation amount for the ninth consecutive year. The utilization amount of fly ash in 2005 reached 54.6 billion tons. The comprehensive utilization rate of industrial solid waste has reached 96.3%.
Chongqing Municipality has obtained the urbanization rate of 43.5%. It has finished the development of such topic plans as the outline for the implementation of urban planning, overall urban planning, scenic spot planning and downtown planning. It has built 5 new sewage treatment plants with the capacity of 927,500 t/d and 6 landfills with newly added capacity of 515.5 t/d. The sewage treatment rate and garbage disposal rate with their coverage is 70% and 90% respectively. It has carried out the trial work on Green GDP accounting that meets the acceptance level by relevant State department. In 2005, it invested 3 million yuan to establish the publishing network on environmental information of main urban areas of Chongqing.
Hebei Province Government believes that the philosophy and recommendations of CCICED on sustainable urbanization focusing on the settlement of pre-eminent problems during the urbanization process in terms of economy, environment and policies are scientific, appropriate, well-targeted and feasible.
The Government of Shanxi Province has adopted the total amount control system for environmental capacity. It has printed and distributed the Circular on Strengthening of EIS for Planning. It has developed the zoning of ecological functions areas of the province and demanded each city and key county carry out eco-function zoning and eco-economy zoning. It has compiled the Pollutants of Shanxi Industrial Pollution Sources under the Release Examination and the Implementation Standard and Technical Standard for the Monitoring of the Up-to-the-Standard Emission of the Industrial Pollution Sources of Shanxi Province. Among the 2,833 key industrial enterprises, 1,755 have finished the pollution control tasks and met the emission standards in an all round way, accounting for 61.95%. The facilities of 393 enterprises on the end-elimination list have stopped operation or shut down with some of them having been removed. It has facilitated the development of environmental protection examination network on urban vehicles. It has established the news release system to report to the public the environmental quality. In addition, it has developed the Rehabilitation Plan of Shanxi for Ecological Environment of Coal Mines. It has demanded the establishment of ecological compensation mechanism for coal mining, implemented the deposit system for rehabilitation of mine-site ecological environment, levied the fund for sustainable development of coal mines and the collected the grant money for the mining right of coal resources.
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region has incorporated related policy recommendations into its Eleventh Five-year Plan for Environmental Protection. An environmental supervision system has been established, which defines the responsibility as the superior authorities conduct inspection, departments at the same level supervise the work and enterprises held accountable for specific problems. Environmental targets are taken as an important element to evaluate official performance at all levels and the accountability system in environmental protection is perfected. The autonomous region has taken active measures to promote the development of circular economy by building eco industrial parks of national level.
Heilongjiang Province organized the formulation of plans to divide ecological function zones across the province, and established five centralized sewage treatment facilities in Jingbo Lake, increasing the sewage treatment capacity by 500 tons per day. It launched special investigations on the hidden troubles threatening environmental safety in drinking water sources and on the pollutant discharge of enterprises in river basins; initiated the project on natural forest protection in Daxing'anling region, and set up Nanwenghe Nature Reserves with an area of 230,000 ha and a special protected area covering 1.02 million ha. in the source area of Nenjiang River; established ecological industrial parks at national and provincial levels; conducted pilot projects on clean production and clean production examination in eight selected large-and medium-sized enterprises and four cities; examined 21 enterprises from eight industries on clean production, and put forward 419 schemes for clean production, the implementation of which will save 3.02 million tons of water and cut down COD by more than 10,000 tons yearly.
Liaoning Province has conducted research on the planning of regional environmental protection in city clusters of the central part of the province. It drafted Measures on Environmental Impact Assessment for Plans and conducted survey on atmospheric capacity in key cities. The province is divided into six ecological function zones covering the east, southeast, central, west, northwest and offshore areas so that eco environment is managed according to different zones. Liaoning Province has seen the establishment of the first provincial test line for environment-friendly vehicles across the country. And an automatic monitoring system for urban air quality is also set up. The provincial government has established an evaluation system for environmental targets and signed responsibility contracts with local governments. Air quality and integrated improvement of environment are incorporated into the provincial indicator system for evaluating municipal governments.
Jilin Province has sped up the pace to build an eco province. It has set down the overall objectives and specific measures to achieve commercialization of environmental facilities, establishment of environmental monitoring system and environmental emergency response system. Much attention is paid to 50 pillar industries practicing circular economy such as iron and steel, non-ferrous metals, coal, building materials, power generation and petrochemicals. Projects in line with the requirement of clean production are granted favorable policies and financial support. Facilities are built in urban communities to use recycled water. The provincial government also used aid projects granted by the Japanese Government to solve environmental pollution in backward rural areas free of charge. Ethanol gasoline is promoted to reduce CO2 emissions and efforts are made to reduce water and energy consumption while enhancing resource use rate and waste collection rate. Environmental impact assessment should be incorporated into guidance plans for land use, river basin development, regional development and planning for industry and agriculture. Jilin Province has also established environmental emergency response system for the Songhua River. Enterprises are mobilized to implement environmental information disclosure system and public encouraged to actively participate in environmental protection.
Jiangsu Province is earnestly promoting sustainable urbanization. It strives to give more impetus to the central cities and beautiful cities to enhance their influence on rural areas. Management of space distribution and control over the total scale of land for construction is reinforced according to the environmental carrying capacity of urban and rural areas. Some enterprises causing heavy pollution have been shut down or relocated during the restructuring of urban industry. Preliminary price for major pollutant discharge indicators including SO2 and COD has been fixed and pollution discharge right is granted by payment. The province has launched key energy saving projects such as reformation of coal-fired industrial boilers and it allocates 30 million yuan every year as allowance or loan discount to support provincial pilot projects of circular economy. Efforts have been made to promote the industrialization of public transit sector by attracting capital from the society to operate related projects. An environmental emergency response system is established and to be improved. The performance in meeting environmental targets is considered a major element and compulsory indicator for evaluating government officials. The drive to build civil communities has been pushed forward. A rating system for assessment of government and enterprises' environmental behaviors has been carried out and the rating is open to the public. Jiangsu Province has taken further steps in the campaign of building national eco city, NMCEP, eco demonstration zones, environment-beautiful towns and national environment-friendly enterprises.
Zhejiang Province initially created the urban and rural planning system to protect the historical scenic spots and ecologically sensitive areas; issued, printed, and distributed a number of documents related to the layout and construction of harmonious communities in urban and rural areas and the enhancement of community services, such as Opinions on Further Enhancing the Urban and Rural Planning, and Opinions on Further Enhancing Urban Work and Taking a New Road towards Urbanization. The province vigorously promoted the construction of eco-provinces, and among others, Anji County was nominated among the first group of eco-counties in the country; established 11 national-level environmentally beautiful towns and villages, 29 national-level green schools, ten green communities and four green families both of national level. The efforts of Huzhou City to create a national environmental protection model city (NEPMC) passed the official check and acceptance of the State. The province also worked out plans for pollution treatment in seven watersheds; focused on pollution treatment of printing and dyeing, paper-making and other key industries; made overall plans for urban and rural development, and vigorously treated agricultural non-point pollution in rural areas; and increased the capital inputs year by year to be exclusively used for establishing sewage and garbage treatment facilities, and environment auto-monitoring networks.
Anhui Province formulated plans for regional development of Huaihe River basins, and divided varied ecological regions according to their major functions; established wetland parks in order to integrate wetlands protection with urban construction, play the role of wetlands in generating ecological benefits, and enrich city landscape; actively established the performance assessment system in compliance with the scientific outlook on development; prepared to set up a physical flow accounting system for resources and environment so as to reflect the effectiveness of resources and environment policies by physical flow indicators.
Fujian Province carried out the construction of environment monitoring systems, and accordingly, the total value of apparatus and equipment for environment monitoring added up to 200 million yuan, and 68 environment monitoring stations passed the certification of measurement. The province established ten water quality auto-monitoring stations and 31 air quality auto-monitoring sites; made great efforts to advocate energy conservation and develop circular economy. 139 enterprises across the province were examined on clean production, 100-odd enterprises obtained the certificates of ISO14000 environment management system, and the outputs of environment-related industries exceeded 16.5 billion yuan. Clean energy constituted more than 45% of the consumed primary energy in the province. Fujian also established a watershed compensation mechanism in Jiulong River, Minjiang River, and Jinjiang River basins in the principle of "he who benefits should compensate"; unfolded government performance assessments at provincial and municipal levels in an all-round way, and listed seven Grade I and 28 Grade II environment indicators among the important indicators for performance assessments.
Jiangxi Province intensified the orientation role of land supply by curbing the growth of top grade housing and encouraging the factories to establish multi-storey facilities; rigorously implemented the farmland protection system, supplied land resources by law and in compliance with the requirements of both overall and annual plans for land use, and improved the land use efficiency; studied, formulated and improved the rules and regulations related to land supply, such as compensation for land requisition and reallocation, management of land supply market, etc.; lodged the proposal to give the first priority to public transportation development in urban areas; built resource-saving towns, paid equal attention to development and conservation while giving the first priority to conservation and focusing on the conservation of energy, water, materials, and lands; accelerated structural adjustments, promoted technical progress, improved resource efficiency, established strict access standards for industries with high energy consumption and restricted the construction of such projects.
Shandong Province has strengthened promotion by educating the leadership, society and enterprises to take protection of environment as priority. It has implemented clear water action plan for "Two Lakes and One River", which focused on the pollution control along the South-North Water Diversion Project and Xiaoqinghe River. All the 35 indicators for the first stage of building an Eco Province have been achieved. Environmental pollution has been put under control on the whole with the discharge volume of COD, NH3-N, industrial dust and industrial solid wastes reduced by 22.9%, 26.2%, 49.9% and 90% respectively in 2005 as compared to that of 2000. The province has issued 9 standards for pollutant discharge in local areas and 15 cities in the province won the title of NMCEP. Shandong Province has accelerated the development of circular economy and a systematic mode to promote circular economy at all levels has taken shape. It is designated as pilot province to practice circular economy at the national level. Rural environmental protection projects have been in full swing. Investigations on soil pollution are under way to promote prevention and control of soil pollution comprehensively. Efforts are made to build centralized sewage treatment plants and refuse collection system in key towns and industrial parks. By preparing the provincial Eleventh Five-year Plan for Environmental Protection, the province is pushing the society to move towards a science-based and human-centered path to development.
Hubei Province has given priority to the use of abandoned land that had been restored under the premise that environmental safety is guaranteed in order to avoid overuse of farmland and green belts. Scientific approach has been adopted to measure and give consideration to environmental rehabilitation capability and carrying capacity in cities and surrounding areas, including geographic characteristics, cultural diversity and loss of cultural heritage. Comprehensive zoning is planned according to the requirement of "optimized development, focal development, restricted development and prohibited development" and compensation will be made as appropriate. The local government has made its efforts to build resource efficient towns and promote sustainable production and consumption. The development of public transit system has been put on top agenda and reduction of car emission is taken as a major task. The use of private car should be controlled by imposing traffic congestion tax and other regulatory means. Environmental law enforcement has been strengthened and environmental performance is incorporated into the evaluation system on government officials. Environmental education is promoted and NGOs are given full scope to play their role.
Together with Ministry of Construction, Guangdong Province formulated the regulations on the implementation of plans on balanced development of city groups in Pearl River Delta, which is the first local regulation of China ever formulated on implementing regional urban plans. It established 88 sewage treatment plants across the province, with daily treatment capacity up to 6.69 million tons and a COD reduction of 350,000 tons, ranking the first in the country; completed the thermal power units for soot desulfurization with installed capacity up to 652KW and reduced SO2 emissions of 200,000 tons per year, ranking No. 1 in China; conducted on-line monitoring on major pollutant sources, and established a supervision mechanism with long effect; set about to establish a communiqué on GDP energy consumption indicators, released on a regular basis the reduction rates of energy consumption per 10,000 yuan GDP, electric power consumption amount, and energy consumption per 10,000 yuan added industrial value for scaled enterprises in cities of this Province. It impelled 133 enterprises to receive compulsory examination on clean production, checked, accepted and nominated 52 enterprises with clean production, and set up 24 technical supporting units for clean production; and urged all the buses and taxis to use LPG, the clean energy. 21 prefecture-level cities had access to daily report on air quality, and monthly report on water quality of drinking water sources and major rivers were issued. Together with Hong Kong, Guangdong province took the lead in the country to establish air quality monitoring network in Pearl River Delta, which included 16 sub-stations.
Guangxi Autonomous Region officially launched the efforts to build an ecological Guangxi, and formulated the Outline of Eco-Guangxi Construction Plan. Guangxi was formally listed by the State among the first group of pilot areas for environmental impact assessment on plans. It extended the application of detergent additive for vehicle-use fuels all over the autonomous region; continued to promote the construction of National Eco-industrial Demonstration Park (for sugar refinery) in Guigang City; practiced clean production examination, and examined eight enterprises (including Nanning Chemical Group Co. Ltd.) that voluntarily applied for such examination; completed the measurement of SO2 in 14 cities of the autonomous region and of the environmental capacity of COD in surface water, and applied the measurement results to the development plans; adjusted and formulated the Quantitative Assessment Indicators for Comprehensive Environmental Treatment in Urban Areas of Guangxi Autonomous Region under the Ten Five Year Plan; allocated the targets to control the total discharge amount of major pollutants as defined by the State to municipal governments; undertook the planning and construction work of urban transport system that focused on the preferential development of urban public transportation; launched the campaign to build water-saving cities, among which Guilin City had officially applied for national-level water-saving city; and organized the formulation of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan of Guangxi Autonomous Region on Urbanization Development.
Hainan Province has incorporated sustainable development into its objectives and measures to build Eco Province. It prepared Plan for Urban and Rural System of Hainan Province and Overall Planning for Cities and Township of Hainan, which break up the administrative zoning and identify the position of ecological functions and target for urban development according to the carrying capacity of resources and environment and the requirement of "optimized development, focal development, restricted development and prohibited development". Development of urban and rural area, infrastructure construction, industrial development and protection of ecology all proceed from the perspective of regional development. The province is making research on the emerging problems brought about by the reform of fuel surcharge and fuel tax. It will formulate an implementing scheme for water price reform and unveil pricing policies and supplementary local standards in favor of energy saving. High attention is paid to the energy saving measures adopted by energy intensive enterprises. The government should set out energy saving measures to guide public behavior. Large sized enterprises are practicing clean production and reuse of waste materials on a trial basis. Environmentally friendly vehicles powered by gases are promoted. The province has started to assess its government officials taking account of the comprehensive indicator of national land, environment and resources. Total cap control is exercised in the restructuring of key industries, pollution control of key river basins, areas and marine waters as well as the prime enterprises. Water quality assessment system of river sections in cities and counties and information opening system are established.
Guizhou Province signed the Target-hitting Responsibility Documents on Reduction of the Total Amount of Major Pollutants under the Eleventh Five-Year Plan and the Target-hitting Responsibility Documents on Reduction of the Total Amount of SO2 Emissions under the Eleventh Five-Year Plan with governments (administrative offices) of cities (autonomous prefectures) and relevant enterprises. The province increased the inputs in environment protection year by year, which reached up to 3.28 billion yuan in 2004, accounting for 2.1% of GNP; built seven urban sewage treatment plants and eight environmentally sound garbage disposal sites in the influence scope and upper reaches of Three Gorges Reservoir, and is about to build another 11 sewage treatment plants and fiver garbage disposal sites; implemented 26 key projects on industrial pollution treatment; boosted the efforts to divide protected areas for centralized drinking water sources in county-level cities and towns; facilitated the use of renewable energy in rural areas, and built a total of 730,000 rural biogas pools; completed man-made forest up to 37.5 million mu, with the forest coverage rate at 34.9%, 16 percentage points higher than the national average; promoted the standardization of environment monitoring in an all-round way, and gradually set up and improved automatic air quality monitoring systems in nine major cities. Guiyang City was listed among the first ten provinces or cities for pilot projects on circular economy. Guizhou Province actively introduced foreign capitals to conduct environment treatment projects in enterprises of Guiyang City and urban domestic wastewater treatment projects, and to do the first-phase work on clean development mechanism.
Yunnan Province carries out planned development according to the function orientation of different regions mapped in urban development. This aims to avoid newly-emerged ecological destruction and regional environmental pollution in the process of urban development. Measures are taken to encourage efficient utilization of resources, expand clean production and phase out backward production techniques. Development of urban transit system has been regarded as priority. The province has been conscientious in the efforts to build National Model City of Environmental Protection (NMCEP) and Ecological City. It has taken appropriate measures to encourage public participation and education, with a view to promoting environmental awareness and encouraging NGOs to play an active role in urban sustainable development.
Tibet Autonomous Region prepared its Eleventh Five-year Plan for Environmental Protection and completed the Plan for Protection and Construction of Ecological Defense on Tibet Plateau, which has been reported to the State Council for approval. In 2005, the regional government invested nearly 300 million yuan to build refuse disposal facilities in seven cities where local people's government is based. Lhasa has completed division of environmental function zones based on scientific method. The city takes the lead to boycott white pollution caused by plastic and disposable utensils. Pollution control over vehicle emissions is also intensified. As a move to develop circular economy and promote clean production, local government has largely supported residential and public buildings saving energy and land. Efforts have been made to strengthen the recovery and reuse of renewable resources, promote comprehensive use of mineral resources and step up land rehabilitation and construction of eco environment. Tibet Autonomous Region has launched campaign for building eco demonstration zones, environment-friendly enterprises and environment-beautiful towns to guide green consumption.
While formulating urban development plans, governments of Xi'an City and Xianyang City in Shaanxi Province broke the restricts of administrative division, take overall considerations of the carrying capacity of resources and environment of both cities, defined regional ecological functions, and strived to make concerted efforts in development and pollution treatment. When it developed the outline for the Eleventh Five Year Plan, Shaanxi Province made references to the policy recommendations on creating a comprehensive pricing system for natural resources, and proposed in related special plans the policy in favor of resource saving and recycling. It paid attention to the protection of profound inners of historical cultures in the effort to rebuilt old city districts, and avoided "the same outlooks of different city districts"; actively tried to establish price-regulation funds for products used as resources, and strived to establish a resource pricing mechanism that can sensitively reflects the supply-demand relationship in the market and the scarcity of resources; initiated the project to generate power by natural gas, increased the proportion of such power and reduced SO2 level in urban areas.
Gansu Province made Wuwei City and Jiayuguan City the major cities in the province for promotion of circular economy, so as to create ecological industrial parks for demonstrative purposes; examined key enterprises on clean production, and conducted sustained clean production; taking the lead in implementing green administration and green procurement in government organs; transformed the fuel of 90.5% of buses and 21.9% of the tax from gasoline to gases; established and promoted environment-friendly enterprises, and took measures to encourage green consumption; advocated the use of energy- and water-saving products in newly established public facilities in urban areas; closed down small coal pits that severely polluted environment by law; worked out measures on eco-compensation for exploration and development of oil fields, and gradually established a unified, scientific and rational eco-compensation mechanism for developing mineral resources and a deposit system for restoration of mine environment.
Qinghai Province organized the formulation of some important plans, such as Urban System Planning in Qinghai Province (2002-2020) and the Overall Plan on Scenic Spots of Qinghai Province; 80% of the cities which had subordinate county-level cities made detailed plans, and more than 30% of autonomous prefectures, counties and independent industrial and mining areas developed detailed plans to a restricted extent. The province invested 200 million yuan in implementing water-saving irrigation projects, 5 million yuan of loan interest allowances for water-saving irrigation projects, and more than 20 million yuan special funds for solar cookers; gave farmers or peasants over 130,000 solar cookers free of charge; had compulsory pre-construction examinations on energy efficient buildings, and made the target to build resource-saving cities one of the important assessment factors; uniformly improved the standards for collection of water resources fees, and enlarged the collection scope, adjusted the tap water supply price and sewage treatment fees in some cities, and gradually established the system to carry out scalar water price for residential water uses and cost plus pricing system for extra-plan and extra-quota water use for non-residential purposes, so as to promote water conservation and water pollution control.
