China: Law on the Prevention and Control of Air Pollution/Air Pollution Control Law
This law requires enterprises to use energy-efficient, low-polluting clean production technologies, and asks the economic management authorities (SDPC and SETC) to promulgate lists of equipment to be retired. It requires sorting and washing of high-sulfur and high-ash coal, which would lead to marketing of coal that could be used more efficiently in end use equipment. As a result of this legislation and the more forceful implementation of environmental regulations, many small, inefficient and heavily polluting plants shut down and mines were closed. This has led to greater opportunity for efficient higher quality mines and plants to open.
Date Implemented: 2000; revised 2002
Status: In Force; Mandatory
References: EIA Country Analysis Brief: China http://www.eia.doe.gov/
http://www.iea.org/textbase/pm/?mode=weo&id=3282&action=detail
Reform of China’s Energy Institutions and Policies: Historical Evolution and Current Challenges, Energy Technology Innovation Project, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (2001),