China to Close Some Paper Plants As Effort to Protect Environment
Posted on: Sunday, 9 October 2005, 09:00 CDT
China to close some paper plants as effort to protect environment
BEIJING, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- China is expected to shut down a batch of paper plants in the coming future in a bid to reduce pollution and protect environment, according to an official with the country's environmental watchdog.
"There still exist some outstanding problems on pollution caused by paper plants despite some initial progress we've made after years of endeavors to that end," Li Xinmin, deputy head of the department of pollution control under the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) of China, said here Saturday.
Speaking at a forum on the environment protection in the country's paper making industry, Li said China is determined to close a batch of major polluting paper plants, especially those small paper plants which are backward both in technology and operation and fail to process waste water. Some will be merged or moved out of cities. But he didn't give the exact number.
China had more than 3,500 paper making enterprises in 2004, which yielded more than 49.5 million tons of paper products, covering ten percent of the world's total.
However, the volume of annual discharged waste water is estimated at 318,000 tons, 16.1 percent of the country's total.
In 2004, the waste water discharged by China's paper making industry was the second largest after the chemical industry.
SEPA predicts China's market demand of paper products in 2010 will reach up to 70 to 80 million tons.
The small scale of paper plants with high consumption of energy is the major cause of the serious pollution in the paper making industry, li said.
He said strict law enforcement is indispensable for the sustainable development of the country's paper industry.
He suggested that it is necessary to set up a management system to classify the plants into different grades, regularly announce the information on their polluting status and intensify social supervision.
Source: Xinhua News Agency - CEIS
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