31 provinces in China have issued military orders to control haze, and the State Council will evaluate this every year

31 provinces in China have issued military orders to control haze, and the State Council will evaluate this every year The Ministry of Environmental Protection of China announced on the 7th that the Ministry of Environmental Protection and 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) across the country have signed...

The Ministry of Environmental Protection of China announced on the 7th that the Ministry of Environmental Protection and 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) across the country have signed the "Responsibility Letter for Air Pollution Prevention and Control Targets" to set reduction targets for the average annual concentration of PM2.5 or PM10 in various places. The State Council will assess this every year. Among them, the annual average concentration reduction target of PM2.5 in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei is 25%.

In September last year, the State Council issued the General Guidelines for Haze Control, Ten Articles on Air Pollution Prevention and Control, which set a timetable for haze control in China: by 2017, the concentration of respirable particulate matter in cities at prefecture level and above in China will drop by more than 10% compared to 2012.

To this end, the Ministry of Environmental Protection signed a letter of responsibility with 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities (hereinafter referred to as provinces), setting detailed air quality improvement targets for each region. Among them, 10 provinces in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta and Chongqing City will focus on assessing the decline in the annual average concentration of PM2.5 (fine particulate matter); the other 20 provinces will focus on assessing the decline in the annual average concentration of PM10 (respirable particulate matter).

Among the regions that have set targets for PM2.5, Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei have set targets for a 25% reduction, Shanxi, Shandong, Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang have set a 20% reduction, Guangdong and Chongqing have a 15% reduction, and Inner Mongolia has a 10% reduction.

Areas that have set PM10 targets are divided into five levels based on local environmental quality: Hainan, Tibet, Yunnan and other areas where the annual average concentration of PM10 is far lower than the national standard will continue to Improvement is enough; in other regions, according to the degree to which the annual average concentration of PM10 is close to or exceeds the standard, it will decrease by 5% (such as Guangxi, Fujian), 10% (such as Liaoning, Sichuan), 12% (such as Gansu, Hubei), and 15% (such as Qinghai, Xinjiang).

In addition, the responsibility letter also specifically targets the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and surrounding Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, and Shandong, setting annual quantitative targets for coal reduction, elimination of backward production capacity, and boiler, motor vehicle, and dust control.

The action of this responsibility letter comes from effective supervision. The reporter learned from the Ministry of Environmental Protection that the State Council of China will assess the completion of goals and tasks in various regions every year. For areas that fail the assessment, the Ministry of Environmental Protection will notify the organization department and supervisory department of criticism, interview the person in charge, and propose rectification suggestions within a time limit.