The State Environmental Protection Standards Planning During 11^(th) Five-Year Plan (2006-2010)

This planning is stipulated to reinforce Decision by State Council onReinforrcing Environmental Protection with Views of Scientific Development, to give impetus to theenforcement and supervision along legal, standardized and scientific lines, to strengthenwell-structured laws and regulations for environmental protection, to improve the system oftechnical laws, regulations and standards for environmental protection, scientifically establishenvironmental standards and to dovetail environmental protection standards and targets. PresentSituation and Problems Concerning State Environmental Protection Standardization System PresentSituation of State Environmental Protection Standardization System China''s environmental protectionstandardization started side by side with environmental protection. The year 1973 witnessed China''sfirst environmental protection stand ard-Trial Standard of Industrial ''Three Wastes'' Discharge.After the development of over three decades, China''s environmental protection standard system,composed of national and local scales, has begun to take shape. National environmental protectionstandards range from environmental quality standard, pollutant discharge and control standards,standard sample, industrial standard for environmental protection, to other standards.

Idea and goals of environmental protection and ecological construction in the 11^(th) five-year plan period

In this paper, the executive of the 10th Five- Year Plan in the field of environmental protection and ecological constrution is reviewed, and the charactristics of economic growth and its environmental impact on the 11^th Five-Year Plan is forecasted and analyzed. A principal idea of eavironmental protection and ecological construction is put forward for the 11^th Five-Year Plan pertod： strensgthen the point treatment in key areas and set the main targets based on the idea. The relating countermeasures in national level are proposed as follows： set up appropriate ideas for official achievements by launching resources and environmental cost acconting; adjust the industrial struacture actively by industrial policies and strenuous work; develop circular economy, change the mode of environmental protecgon from end treatment to headstream and proeess control： strengthen the market mechanism in the process of pollution treatment, set up the system of ＂who treats who benefits＂ ; perfect interrelated laws and standards, strengthen the ability of environmental munagement; lay extra emphasis on two key targets： water pollution tretment in key river basins and management of the reserves; and combine the ecological consnuction and poverty alleviation in higher level.

Environmental protection plans

China will take a series of measures to improve the environment in the Three Gorges area, where the world’s largest water-control project is being undertaken. Tackling ecological and environmental problems there will have a direct bearing on the resettlement of the local people and the construction of the Three Gorges Project. The Three Gorges area, located in Sichuan and Hubei provinces in the upper Yangtze River, covers 59,900 km^2. After the project’s reservoir is full of water, 21 cities and counties will be affected. The area has complicated geological conditions, with landslides, mud-rock flows and soil erosion in some places. Meanwhile,

Planning to Protect the Environment

China formulates a development plan for energy-saving and environmental protection industries U.S.-headquartered diversified power management company Eaton Corp.announced on August 12 that it would achieve sales revenue of $2 billion in China by the end of 2015,