On the eve of the 39th World Environment Day, the Ministry of environmental protection issued the 2009 state of China's Environment Bulletin on the 3rd.
From the communique, we are pleased to see that in response to the challenges of the international financial crisis, China's pace of environmental protection has become more firm. The implementation of the "Eleventh Five Year Plan" environmental protection plan has met the schedule requirements, and some indicators have been overfulfilled, making steady progress towards the goal of environmental protection plan.
Pollution reduction continues to maintain "double decline"
This year is the eleventh five year plan, compared with the following year. Whether the binding target of reducing the total emission of major pollutants by 10% can be achieved is the focus of social attention.
According to the communique, the total emission of chemical oxygen demand in 2009 was 12.775 million tons, 3.27% lower than that of the previous year; The total emission of sulfur dioxide was 22.144 million tons, a decrease of 4.60% over the previous year.
It has been noted that compared with 2005, China's chemical oxygen demand and sulfur dioxide emissions in 2009 decreased by 9.66% and 13.14% respectively, and the "Eleventh Five Year" emission reduction target of sulfur dioxide was achieved one year ahead of schedule, which laid a solid foundation for the comprehensive completion of the "Eleventh Five year" emission reduction target.
The achievements have benefited from strong measures. According to Zhang Lijun, Vice Minister of the Ministry of environmental protection, last year, the Ministry of environmental protection made decisions on returning reports, not giving official reply or suspending approval for 49 projects with a total investment of 190.5 billion yuan. At the same time, we carried out special law enforcement activities in high pollution industries, investigated and dealt with 1824 projects that were not approved and 3167 projects that failed to implement the "three Simultaneities" requirements, and urged the rectification in place.
Strict assessment and accountability mechanism has also played a role. Under these measures, all localities have innovated measures and strengthened measures to effectively promote the in-depth development of emission reduction work.
