According to the August 29, 2015 China government's twelve session of the sixteenth session of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress 29 voted to adopt the revised law of the People's Republic of China on the prevention and control of air pollution. The president Xi Jinping signed the presidential decree to be publicized. The new law will come into force on January 1, 2016.
The current air pollution prevention and control law was formulated in 1987. When it was revised in 2000, it focused on the control of sulfur dioxide emissions and played an important role in the prevention and control of coal-burning pollution. With the rapid development of economy and society, especially the number of vehicles increases rapidly, China's air pollution and vehicle exhaust soot with positive type transition, regional atmospheric environmental issues have become increasingly prominent, frequent weather such as heavy haze pollution, the current law has been unable to meet the needs of the new situation.
Air pollution prevention law revised eight chapter 129, in addition to general principles, legal liability and supplementary provisions, respectively on the air pollution control standards and compliance deadline for planning, supervision and management of the prevention and control of air pollution, air pollution prevention and control measures, the focus of regional air pollution joint prevention and control, to deal with heavy pollution weather and other content provisions. Tong Weidong, deputy director of the administrative law office of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, introduced that the law is mainly aimed at improving the quality of the atmospheric environment, strengthening the responsibility of the local government and strengthening the supervision of the local government. At the same time, from the point of insisting on the source governance, the relevant systems are perfected from the angle of promoting the transformation of economic development mode, optimizing the industrial structure and adjusting the energy structure.
Tong Weidong said, "the repair method focuses on the outstanding problems in the current prevention and control of air pollution. For example, the main pollution sources of air pollution are coal, industrial emissions, and motor vehicle emissions. In view of these aspects, the law made specific provisions, especially also made clear requirements for prevention, key areas of heavy pollution weather measures." The law also increased the establishment of air environmental protection target responsibility system and assessment system, air pollution prevention and control in key areas, early warning and response to heavy pollution weather and other contents, and improved the punishment for air pollution violations. Experts said that these modifications will help prevent and control air pollution, protect and improve people's living environment and ecological environment, ensure public health and promote sustainable economic and social development.
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The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress voted through the revised law on the prevention and control of air pollution.
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