Ministry of environmental protection: China's two level, five types of environmental protection standards system has been formed

For a long time, the issue of environmental protection standards and the issue of controlling pollutants has been a major concern. Today at a routine conference of environmental protection, so far, our country has issued the state environmental protection standards, 2038 current standards for item 1753, two levels of five types of environmental standards system has been formed.

Two levels of five types of environmental standard system, national and local standards, respectively, categories include environmental quality standards, pollutant discharge (control), the environmental monitoring standard base class, the class standard of environmental management and environmental standards.

Environmental protection standards, head of the department of science and technology is introduced, the current national standards for environment quality 16, have covered the air, water, soil, noise and vibration, main environmental factors such as nuclear and radiation; There are 163 standards for pollutant discharge (control) in the current state, including 75 for air pollutants and 120 for controlling projects; The water pollutant discharge standard 64 items, the control project reached 158. Overall, the number and severity of pollutants under control in China's air and water pollutant discharge standards are comparable to that of major developed countries and regions.

Ministry of environmental protection, director-general of the department of science and technology standards Zou: first people all of the standards in the process, especially the quality standards and emission standards, to consider the impact on human health, the atmosphere, the standard of water, including various pollution setting, and its parameter values, basic it is from the baseline, reference at home and abroad and some other environmental quality standards, to determine the standard value, the ultimate goal is to protect human health, as well as the impact on the ecological environment.