The Ministry of Environmental Protection of the PRC , formerly the Environmental Protection Agency ( Chinese trade. . 家 环境保护 总局 ), is a ministry in the executive branch of the Chinese government. It replaced the Office in March 2008 at a session of the National People’s Congress in Beijing .
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The Ministry of Environmental Protection of the country has the task of protecting China's air, water and soil from pollution. Directly under the State Council, it has the right and the law to implement environmental policy and compliance with environmental laws and regulations. In addition to its regulatory role, it funds and organizes research and development. In addition, it also acts as the China Atomic Safety Agency.
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History
In 1972, Chinese representatives attended the First United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, held in Sweden. In 1983, the Chinese government announced that environmental protection would become government policy. In 1998, China went through a catastrophic year of severe flooding, and the Chinese government raised the status of the previous environmental agency.
Organization
There are 12 departments in the ministry, all at the government level. They carry out normative tasks in various fields in order to ensure that the agency works accordingly:
Ministry structure
- General Administrative Office (办公厅)
- Department of Human Resources and Institutional Affairs (行政 体制 与 人事 司)
- Department of Planning and Finance (规划 与 财务 司)
- Department of Politics, Laws and Rules (政策 法规 司)
- Department of Science and Technology and Standards (科技 标准 司)
- Pollution Control Office (污染 控制 司)
- Natural Agency for the Protection of Ecosystems (自然 生态 保护 司)
- Department of Environmental Protection (环境 影响 评价 管理 司)
- International Cooperation Office (国际 合作 司)
- Department of Nuclear Safety (核 安全 管理 司)
- Environmental Inspection Office (环境 监察 局)
- Agency Agency and Party Building (机关 党委)
Activities
The ministry regulates water quality, air quality, solid waste, soil, noise, radioactivity. The ministry finances a number of “key laboratories” in various parts of the country, including: Urban Air Laboratory, Pollution Prevention and Control Laboratory, Environment and Health Laboratory, Industrial Ecology Laboratory, Wetland Ecology and Restoration Laboratory land cover, as well as a biosafety laboratory.
In addition, the Ministry also manages environmental protection engineering and research centers, including: Center for the production control of non-ferrous metal pollution, Center for clean coal and environmental restoration of mines, Center for industrial control of water pollution by waste, Center for industrial pollution control flue gas, hazardous waste treatment center, as well as a solid waste processing and disposal center min.
China is experiencing an increase in environmental complaints: In 2005, 51,000 complaints about environmental pollution were sent, according to Minister Zhou Shengxian. From 2001 to 2005, over 2,530,000 letters and 430,000 visits to 597,000 applicants seeking environmental protection were received by the Chinese environmental authorities. [2]
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Deputy Minister Pan Yue, a former journalist, said in an interview with http://www.chinadialogue.net that the main reason for the worsening global environmental crisis “... is the capitalist system. The environmental crisis has become a new means of transmitting the economic crisis. [3] . He believes that China’s role in the environmental crisis "... arose mainly because our economic modernization regime was copied from Western developed countries. At 30, China achieved economic results that took centuries in the West. But we also focus on solving environmental issues that have arisen over these 30 years, we have become the world leader in GDP growth and foreign investment, we have also become the world's number one consumer of coal, oil and steel - and the largest producer of CO2 and chemical consumers of oxygen emissions. " [3]