关于环境保护若干问题的决定.pdf

Decision of the State Council on Several Issues Concerning Environmental Protection Decision of the State Council on Several Issues Concerning Environmental Protection (August 3, 1996) Full Text With a view to further carrying out the basic state policy of environmental protection, implementing the strategy of sustainable development, executing the Ninth-Five-Year Plan of the People ’s Republic of China on National Economy and Social Development and Outlines of Objectives in Perspective of the Year 2010, and realizing the environmental protection objectives of bringing the worsening tendency of environmental pollution and ecological deterioration under control and improving to certain extent environmental quality of some cities and regions by the year 2000, the following decision is hereby made: 1. Specifying objectives and adopting procedures through which administrative officials shall be held responsible for environmental quality Discharge of pollutants should be subject to control of maximum quantity. A national and systemic maximum quantity index of major pollutants and a practice of regular publication thereof should be adopted in real earnest. By the year 2000, industrial pollution sources all over the country shall meet national or local standards on discharge of pollutants; different provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government should control maximum discharge of major pollutants under their respective jurisdiction within the maximum discharge quantity index laid down by the state. The worsening tendency of environmental pollution and ecological disruption could be generally brought under control. Municipalities directly under the central government, capital cities of provinces, cities within special economic zones, coastal open cities, and key tourist cities should all keep environmental air and environmental quality of surface water up to the