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To improve the structure of energy and Control SO2 pollution By: Xu Shubi, Senior Engineer, Vice Director of Chongqing Environmental Protection Bureau Guo Yijun, Master of Science, Division Chief of Chongqing Environmental Protection Bureau November 2001 1. Preface Located at the link field between middle and west part of China, upper Yangtze, which links 5 provinces including Sichuan, Shanxi, Hubei, Hunan and Guizhou, Chongqing is the 4th Municipality directly under the jurisdiction of central government established in 1997. There are 40 districts or counties under the jurisdiction of Chongqing, the City has a land area of 82,000 square kilometers and a population of 30.9109 million by end of 2000 including agricultural population of 24.3020 million and non-agricultural population of 6.6089 million, enabling to be a typical municipality backed up by big city and big countryside. The main city zone has a constructed land area of 190 km2 and a non-agricultural population of 2.313 million. The total GDP of Chongqing in 2000 was RMB 159 billion Yuan, which is an average of RMB5,157 Yuan per capita. Since late 70’s to early 90’s of the 20th century, the SO2 and acid rain pollutions appeared to be very critical due to various causes, which seriously restrained the sustainable social and economic development. With the support of Chinese government and international communities, Chongqing has made continued effort to effectively prevent the SO2 pollution and created a clean and fresh environment for Chongqing’s sustainable social and economic development. Basic Information Geographic and Weather Conditions The main city zone of Chongqing is located at a valley-hill land between Tongle Mountain and Zhongliang Mountain, and is split by Yangtze and Jialing River, it is higher at west side and lower at east side. Chongqing has a sub-tropical wet monsoon weather, with large humidity, low wind velocity and high countercurrent temperature frequency.