Beijing Olympic co-host city Tianjian has set an ambitious plan on air quality control in 2007, according to the municipal conference on environmental protection on Wednesday.
Total emission volumes of chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) and Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) should reduce by 2.1 percent, thus to meet the national standard. Air quality shall be consecutively improved and 81 percent days in a whole year need to reach level II or above air quality index. Proportions of inhalable particles and SO2 in the air need to obviously drop and 96 percent of city’s drinking water should meet the standards.
Local government will move to tackle environmental bottleneck with several measures. To reduce factory COD and SO2 emissions by smoke desulfurizing renovation and to demolish heavy polluted boilers near the water resources. To fully advocate eco-friendly construction in the city by building eco-friendly manufacture zones and reinforcing drinking water resources protection and supervision as well as moving to build an eco-friendly inhabitability and the sense of environmental protection among the citizen.
In accordance with the related criterion and regulations to build a pilot city of environmental protection, the city will firmly restrict vehicle emissions and flying dust on construction fields.
(Source: en.beijing2008.cn)