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Full Text: Report on China's Economic and Social Development Plan (15)

Posted on: Wednesday, 16 March 2005, 09:00 CST

Full Text: Report on China's economic and social development plan ( 15)

4. Vigorously changing the way the economy grows and pushing ahead with resource conservation and environmental protection. 1) We need to emphasize conserving energy, water, land and materials. We will fully implement the Medium- and Long-Term Plan for Conserving Energy Resources, quickly formulate the Measures for Conserving Petroleum and the Regulations on Fully Utilizing Natural Resources, and revise the Measures for Conserving Electricity. We will promptly formulate and improve energy efficiency standards for products that consume energy and water quotas for industries that depend heavily on water, and introduce a system for eliminating products that consume excessive energy. We will formulate and publish a policy outline for developing energy- and water-efficient technologies, to support the development and application of new technologies, processes and equipment that help conserve energy, reduce consumption of materials, and make comprehensive use of resources. Focus on reducing consumption of energy resources, particularly oil, we will use advanced applied technologies more quickly to upgrade traditional industries and concentrate on technological upgrading of the metallurgical, nonferrous metals, petrochemical, building materials and paper industries to help save energy and water

. We will work out policies for developing energy-efficient, environment- friendly automobiles, new wall materials and energy- efficient housing. 2) We will improve planning and management of mineral resource exploitation. We will reform the system of resource exploitation, promptly improve the compensation mechanisms for the exploitation and use of resources and for restoration of the environment, and improve evaluation of risks and potential involved in energy resource and mineral deposit exploitation. We will put a complete stop to indiscriminate mining and serious waste and environmental destruction in the mining of energy resources and minerals. We will accelerate the development and use of new energy resources and renewable energy resources, and we will support the use of coal gangue, garbage and straw to generate power. We will step up the research and appraisal of oil shale and promote its exploitation and utilization. 3) We will accelerate development of the recycling economy by formulating strategic objectives, evaluation criteria, policies and measures for this purpose. We will support the development and dissemination of technologies for conserving and producing substitutes for natural resources, recycling, remanufacturing, and zero-discharge of pollutants. We will carry out pilot demonstration projects related to the recycling economy and support a range of major projects that help save energy and water, more fully utilize resources and develop the recycling economy. We will expand publicity, education and training to promote development of the recycling economy and build a conservation- minded society. 4) We will effectively strengthen environmental protection. We will continue to promote clean production and formulate evaluation criteria for clean production in major industries. We will control the total amount of pollutants released into the environment. We will intensify control of sulfur dioxide discharged by thermal power plants, build more clean power generating facilities and develop clean coal technology. We will intensify measures to prevent and control pollution in the watersheds of the Huaihe, Haihe and Liaohe rivers and Taihu, Chaohu and Dianchi lakes, the Bohai Sea, the Three Gorges Reservoir area and the Yangtze River above it, and along the routes of the South- to-North Water Diversion Project, as well as pollution from major projects. The Yellow and Songhua rivers will be classified as key areas for pollution control. We will formulate and implement a plan for controlling industrial wastewater in the Huaihe River valley. We will improve the environmental quality in 113 key environmental protection cities. We will establish a sound system of fee collection for urban garbage and sewage treatment and speed up development of facilities for treating and recycling household garbage and sewage in urban areas. (More)

Source: Xinhua News Agency - CEIS

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