What Will Shanghai's Environment be Like

What Will Shanghai’s Environment be Like after the Launch of the New Three-year Environmental Protection Plan?

An Interview with Xu Zuxin, Director of Shanghai Environmental Protection Bureau.This year, Shanghai will launch a new three-year environmental protection action plan. How does the new action plan differ from the first three-year action plan and what does the new one intend to achieve! Yesterday-, Xu Zuxin, newly-appointed Director of Shanghai Environmental Protection Bureau, agreed to give an interview and disclosed information about the new three-year environmental protection action plan.

Q: Recently, Shanghai has been enjoying the blue sky, white clouds and clear air. According to the environmental monitoring department, Shanghai citizens are living in a natural scenic zone. Is this related to Shanghai’s environmental protection action plan being implemented?

A; The improvement of Shanghai’s air quality shows that Shanghai’s environmental treatment has won initial success. Shanghai’s first round of the three-year environmental protection action plan involved water environment treatment, air environment Breitling Replica treatment, solid waste disposal, greening construction, and key industrial areas’ comprehensive environmental treatment. The above five major areas covered 110 projects. These projects have, according to the plan, air been completed or have achieved expected results.

This year, we will launch a new three-year environmental protection plan. I think, with the new plan being carried out, Shanghai will have blue sky, whiter clouds, cleaner water and greener land. Shanghai’s environmental quality will gradually reach the average level of the world-advanced cities. Qi Can you briefly introduce the new plan?

A- The Shanghai Committee of the CPC and the Municipal Government have always taken the reinforcement of environmental protection as one of Shanghai’s strategic striving to carry out several three-year plans successively to build Shanghai in ecological city. . . ,

The new plan defines six key objectives and tasks, including water treatment, air environment treatment, solid waste disposal and utilization! Construction, industrial pollution treatment and industrial areas’ environment treatment, and agricultural eco-environment protection and as for the new plan, compared with the first, what are the differences? As The new plan involves 6 key areas with 24 categories. There are about 300 projects covering the city’s water, air, solid waste, greening construction, agriculture and manufacture. The total number is more than twice as that of the first plan. Now, about 40 percent of the projects have started. Water and air environment treatment and greening construction respectively account for 30. 4 percent, 12. 4 percent and 29. 3 percent, thus bringing water treatment, air treatment and greening construction into focus. Qi What are the features of the new plan?

Aj One prominent feature is its close relevance to people’s life. The plan has many new projects, such as closing livestock farms to ensure the security of drinkable water, reducing the use of fertilizer and pesticides to provide citizens with green food, in the city area further improving the sewage system to avoid polluted water flowing into rivers, within the Inner Elevated Ring Road constructing a 130-square-kilometer coal-free zone, the nation’s largest, to improve the air quality, and building over 10 small sewage treatment plants to protect the safety of the water head. All these are closely related to people’s life.

Qs The new three-year action plan relates to every aspect of people’s life. For such a vast and complex program, what mechanism should be used to ensure the implementation? A$ To ensure the new plan’s implementation, Shanghai has set up the Coordination Omega Replica Watches and Promotion Commission for Environmental Protection and Construction. The Commission’s Office is fully responsible for learning about all the key areas’ progress and investment, identifying problems, organizing research projects, proposing solutions, and submitting them to the Commission for decision-making, so as to ensure the plan’s successful implementation.

The Municipal Government has engaged UNEP Executive Officer Mr Topfer, SEPA Director Mr Xie Zhenhua and Academician Qian Yi as Shanghai’s environmental consultants, as well as 8 domestic noted environmental protection experts to form Shanghai Municipal Government’s expert panel. They will promote the implementation of the new environmental protection plan together.

I believe Shanghai citizens will, by then, be able to drink cleaner water, breath