World Bank Document
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
i | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ g !!|t,; t s0 F ;|$0: | t j.i < 2REPORT, E003 | j.j0,?V U o;0 Public Disclosure Authorized X t0/j X 0 f;0.1; t:ff W X tnr :E 4'~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~F Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized _I=IW=_~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~4i; 1,~!1N . .~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. Public Disclosure Authorized ENvIRoNMENTAL ACTION PLAN OF CHNA 1991-2000 produced by National Environmental Protection Agency And State Planning Commission People's Republic of China EnvironnenmalActmn Pbn of China TABLEOF CONIFNTS Abbreviationu . iv Executive Summary .,.. v I China's EnvirommentalObjectives for the 1990s . ....................... 2 1.1 Overall Objectives. 2 1.2 Main Targets.. 2 1.2.1 EnvironmentalPollution Control. 2 1.2.2 EcologicalProtection of Nature. 3 2 Policies andManagement. 4 2.1 Direction of EnvirommentalPolicies. 4 2.1.1 Strategiesthat Integate EnvironmentalProtection into the Developmentof the Economyand Society. 4 2.1.2 Formulateand ImplementEnvironment-Fnendly Sectoral Policies and Reduce E tvironmentalPollution and Destruction Througb Setoral Restructuring. 7 2.1.3 PromoteScience and Technologyand ActivelyDevelop EnvironmentulProtection Industry. 7 2.1.4 StrengthenEnvironmental Management, Improve Institutional and Policy Coordinationof EnvironmentalProtection. 9 2.2 Economic Policies . .10 2.2.1 Price Policies .10 2.2.2 Tax Policies .11 2.2.3 Credit and Other Policies .12 2.2.4 Natural ResourceAccounting .13 2.3 EnvironmentalProtection Organizations .13 2.3.1 ImproveEnvironmental Protection Organizations .14 2.3.2 Improvethe OperationSystem of EnvironmentalManagement .14 2.3.3 ImproveProfessional Quality .15 2.3.4 Improvethe Technical SupportingAbility of Envirommental ProtectionOrganizations .15 2.3.5 StrengthenEnvironmental Protection Commissions at All Levels and ImproveTheir CoordinationCapability. 15 2.4 EnvironmientalScience and Technology.16 2.4.1 Current Status and Problems.16 2.4.2 Targets ........................................ 16 2.4.3 Major Fields and Priority Programmes.17 2.4.4 Strategyand Measures.17 2.5 Public Participationand EnviromnentalEducation . .19 2.5.1 Public Participation.19 2.5.2 EnvironmentalEducation .23 2.6 Ten Policies on Environmentand Development . .25 3 EnvironmentalAction Plan by Sectors.31 3.1 Urban EnvironmentalProtection . .31 3.1.1 Background.31 3.1.2 Current Situationand Problems .31 EavlronmentalActi 11m of China 3.1.3 Targets ................. 32 3.1.4 Strategy ................. 34 3.1.5 Major Fields andPriority Programmes.36 3.1.6 Implementationand Monitoring .37 3.2 Enrgy ..... 38 3.2.1 Generl Features andProblem.38 3.2.2 Targets .39 3.2.3 StrategyAnd Measures .39 - 3.2.4 Major Fields andPriority Progammes. 41 3.2.5 Implementationand Monitoring .43 3.3 Industry ..... 43 3.3.1 Genal Features andProblems .43 3.3.2 Targets ............ 44 3.3.3 Strtegy ............ 46 3.3.4 Priority Fields andProjcts .50 3.3.5 Implementationand Monitoring .53 3.4 Forests andGrsslands . .53 3.4.1 Forests ............ 53 3.4.2 Grsslands ............ 58 3.5 Rural Area and EcologicalAgriculture . .60 3.5.1 Farmland....................................... 60 3.5.2 Desertification.61 3.5.3 Water Loss and Soil Erosion .63 3.5.4 Land Degenerationand Pollution.68 3.5.5 Rural Energy.69 3.5.6 Township Enteiprises.72 3.5.7 Ecological Agriculture. 74 3.6 Rivers and Seas . .76 3.6.1 Rivers .........................................76 3.6.2 Seas .......................................... 78 3.7 The Conservationof Nature . .82 3.7.1 The Conservationof Species .82 3.7.2 TMeConservation of Wetlands .6 3.7.3 Nature Reserves.7 3.8 GeologicalEnvironment Protection . .9 3.8.1 Current Status and Problems .89 3.8.2 Targets .89 3.8.3 Strategies .90 3.8.4 Implementation and Monitoring .90 4 Investment in EnvironmentalProtection . .91 4.1 Investmentin PollutionContrl . .91 4.1.1 Investmentin Air Pollution Control .. 91 4.1.2 Investment in Water Pollution Control .92 4.1.3 Investmentin Solid Waste and Noise PollutionControl . .92 4.1.4 Source of PoDution Control Investment .92 4.2 Investmentfor Natural ResouroeConservation .. 94 4.2.1 Forests Conservation.94 4.2.2 Grasslands Conservation .94 4.2.3 Soil Erosion Control .94 4.2.4 Desertification Control .95 4.2.5 Flood and WaterloggingControl and Irrigation .95 - ii- Enviromnentnl Action Plan of China 4.2.6 Natural Reserves and Biodiversity Conservation ............... 95 5 Priorities of Envirommental Cocerns ................................ 97 5.1 Environmental Priorities ........................................ 97 5.1.1 Water Pollution (with key pollutants of organic) ............... 97 5.1.2 Urban Air Pollution (with key pollutants of TSP and S02) .. ....... 97 5.1.3 Industrial Toxic and Hazardous Solid Wastes and Urban Pollution ... 97 5.1.4 Shortage of Surface-Water Resources in the North and Serious Shortage of Water in Many Cities ................ 98 5.1.5 Serious and Widely-distributed Soil Erosion ................. 98 5.1.6 Low Forest Coverage Rate, Shrinking of Natural Forests and Serious Grassland Degradation ....................... 98 5.1.7 Reduction of Ecosystems and Species ...................... 98 5.2 Main Points of Work in Environmental Protection ........................ 99 5.2.1 EnviromnmentalPollution Prevention and Control .... ........... 99 5.2.2 Natural Resource Conservation .......................... 101 6 Suggestions for International Cooperation on the Environment ................. 102 6.1 Technological Cooperation . ... ..................................... 102 6.2 Personnel Exchanges and Training .......... ........................ 102 6.3 Environmental Projects .......................................... 103 References .105 Annex: List of Participating Organs and Members in the Preparation of the Environmental Action Plan of China ............................. 106 -ui- Environniental Action Plan of China ARiREviAIONs ADB Asian Development Bank BAP Biodiversity Action Plan (of China) BOF Bureau of Forestry CRAES Chinese Research Academyof EnvirommentalSciences CRUE comprehensive renovationof the urban environment EAP Environmental Action Plan (of China) EIA environmental impact assessment EPBs Environmental Protection Bureaus FGD flue gas desulphurisation GEF Global Environment Facility GNP gross national product MDA International Development Association (World Bank) MOA Ministry of Agriculture MOC Ministry of Construction MOE Ministry of Energy MOF Ministry of Forestry MOOWR Ministry of Water Resources NEPA National Environmental Protection Agency NPC National People's Congress QAC quota for allowable cut SLMA State Land ManagementAgency SO2 sulphur dioxide So. sulphur oxides SPC State Planning Commission SPM suspended particulate matter TCE tons of coal equivalent TSPs total suspended particulates TVIEs town and village industrial enterprises UNCED United Nations Conference on Envirommentand Development UNDP United Nations DevelopmentProgramme UNEP United Nations Environment Programme -WRWT tre_rwee lv -nt -iv- Enviromenta ActionPlan of Chim Executive Summary ExECurVESUmmARY Since 1992, China has been using funds from the International Development Association (IDA), a branch of the World Bank, to develop environmental protection projects. Tbis cooperation is expected to continue a long time, and possibly the number of loans will be expanded gradually. According to MDArequirements that all member state governments should submit an Environmental Action Plan (EAP) by mid-1993, the National Enviromenta Protection Agency of China and the State Planning Commiscionformulated the 'Environmental Action Plan of China'. It focuses on: (1) the concrete environmental objectives to be reached by the year 2000 in several fields, ranging from industry and urban environments, to forests and grasslands, to soil, water, and wildlife conservation; (2) the policies and measures needed to realize these objectives; (3) the environmental problems, priorities and major environmenta projects in each sector (and the institutions responsible for implementation, institutionbuilding, training and educationalprograms); (4)) the total funding requirements and possible funding sources; (5) the priorities among China's environmental concerns; and (6) a survey of areas where China is seeking international cooperation in environmental protection. OveamllEnvironmental Objectives At the beginning of the 1980s, China formulated overall strategic objectives for economic development: to quadruple the gross national product (GNP) of 1980 by the year 2000 calculated in constant prices so as to make her people generally well-off and to raise her per capita GNP to the level of medium-developedcountries by the middle of the next century. Correspondingto the national social and economic development objectives, China has set goals for environmentalprotection to be reached by the year 2000: environmental pollution will be basically brought under control; the environmental quality in major cities will be improvedand ecological degradation will be alleviated; and environmental protection will catch up with the national economic and social development. Policies 4 Family Planning. China has made achievements in environmental protection through adherence to some basic state policies, one of which is regarding family planning. The policy has fostered a series of measures for lowering the birth rate and thus alleviating pressure on the environment of an ever-expandingpopulation. China began her economic development under the constraints