Environmental Protection

Ministry of Environmental Protection announced PM2.5 monitoring schedule
The next year, the Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta and Jingjinji and other key regions and municipalities directly under the central government and provincial capital city will carry out PM2.5 and ozone monitoring. Yesterday, at the Seventh National Environmental Protection Conference, Zhou Shengxian of minister of Ministry of Environmental Protection announced PM2.5 and ozone monitoring schedules, PM2.5 national monitoring will be divided into" four paces go".

Zhou Shengxian gave the speech focused on the public attention to the air quality. He said, the environmental protection departments must avoid the monitoring data and masses feel" two pieces of skins" problem, cannot let the people suffer from pollution, and the monitoring data of the self.

At present," ambient air quality standard" two comments had ended, next year after the new standard is expected to introduce, increase in fine particulate matter ( PM2.5 ), ozone and carbon monoxide monitoring index.

In PM2.5, the ozone into the implementation of monitoring time yesterday, Zhou Shengxian gives step-by-step implementation of the "four step". He says, 2012, will be in Tianjin, Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta and other key regions and municipalities directly under the central government and provincial capital city to develop PM2.5 and ozone monitoring; 2013 in the 113 key environmental protection city and environmental protection model city monitoring; 2015 in all prefecture-level city to carry out monitoring, and 2016 is the new standard in the implementation of the closed period, when all parts of the country in accordance with the standards for monitoring and evaluation of environmental air quality monitoring results, and released to the public.

Zhou Shengxian said, will further improve the atmospheric mechanism for joint prevention and control, in order to Tianjin, Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta region as the focus, the implementation of multiple pollutants cooperative control. In addition, will also establish a regional atmospheric environment quality forecast system, realize the risk information analysis and warning function. In the continuous heavy pollution days, time to start contingency mechanism, guide masses to arrange travel and life.

Beijing City Environmental Protection Bureau Director Chen Tian said after the meeting, will be in accordance with the deployment of environmental protection actively implement. Prior to this, the City Environmental Protection Bureau said, have begun to equipment procurement, personnel training and so on.

&GT > reduction task;
Nitrogen oxides emission zero growth
According to introduction, the first three quarters of this year, China's chemical oxygen demand COD, sulfur dioxide emissions continued to decline, predicting annual decline in the proportion of about 2%, more than 1.5% emission reduction target. But the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" to add two index, ammonia emissions fell by only 0.9%, nitrogen oxide emissions will increase 7.2%.
Zhou Shengxian said, is expected to ammonia and nitrogen oxides two index this year are not finish were reduced by 1.5% target, especially nitrogen oxides emissions does not fall to rise instead, for the next 4 years reduction work brought the huge challenge.

On the meeting, Zhou Shengxian also announced the Ministry of environmental protection to determine the next reduction task: compared with 2011, sulfur dioxide, COD emissions were reduced by 2%, ammonia emissions reduced by 1.5%, nitrogen oxide emissions to zero growth.