No polluting projects in rural areas
By Zheng Caixiong (China Daily)
Updated: 2006-07-31 16:04 "The rural areas can not sacrifice their environment for economic
development," Huang said.
The notice affects more than 1,000 companies that will be required to shut
down or move away after the environmental protection standards have been raised
in the cities of the Pearl River Delta.
The companies are mainly involved in the electroplating, ceramics,
shoe-making, furniture, chemical, dyeing and electronics industries.
These companies started production in the cities of Guangzhou, Shenzhen,
Zhuhai, Foshan, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Huizhou and Jiangmen in the Pearl River
Delta in the late 1970s and the early 1980s, when the country began opening up
to the outside world.
To improve the province's environment, Guangdong's authorities have also
planned to close down 260 oil and petrochemical companies that are seriously
polluting the environment and another 6,000 companies that are annually
discharging industrial waste of more than 100 tons each.
Meanwhile, the province will shut down all the power generating units with a
capacity of less than 50,000 kilowatts each and with coal and oil as the raw
materials before 2007.
And all the province's thermal power plants will be required to conduct
desulphurization to reduce their pollution and meet the State's environmental
protection standards before 2008, according to the governor.
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