China: Published White-Book On The Environment
Beijing, June 5 / Xinhua / - China on Monday White-Book on the Environment are published, which provides systematic data on the measures taken in this regard the central government over the past decade. The White-Book notes that the country's situation with the protection of the environment continues to remain serious.
45-page white paper "Environmental Protection / 1996 - 2005 /" volume of 17 thousand hieroglyphes is divided into 12 parts. This is the second such book since the 1996, published Press Office of the State Council of China.
It said that, since the late 70's of the last century, against the backdrop of economic dynamism, China was confronted with the same environmental problems that have arisen in various stages of 100 - year process of industrialization in developed countries. There is growing age-old conflict: the environment - the economy. Relative shortage of resources, a fragile ecosystem and other problems have become critical problems hindering China's development.
The Government of the country, focusing on the protection of the environment, has identified this problem as one of the fundamental state policies and gradual development - as a critical strategy. As a result, and despite the significant increase in total expenditure of resources and the quantity of polluting emissions in China trend worsening environmental pollution and ecological destruction softened, pollution in the basins of the rivers has a number of primary results, the quality of the environment in cities and regions has improved, the intensity emissions of industrial waste to a certain extent has decreased, the level of environmental awareness has increased.
In 1998, the State Administration of Environmental Protection has been upgraded to General State Administration of Environmental Protection, thus his status was elevated to ministerial status.
The White-Book underlined the marked improvement in environmental quality in some cities. Thus, in comparison with 1996 in 2005, the proportion of cities, air quality had reached the second degree, an increase of 31 percentage points, while the proportion of cities, the air quality in lower than the third degree, reduced to 39 - percentage points.
In recent years, China solved the problem for more than 67 million rural safe drinking water.
According to the White-Book, the ecological situation in some regions of China began to improve. The area of forest plantations in 2002, each year exceeded 6.67 million hectare. At present, China's total forest area is 175 million hectares, covers - 18.21 per cent. At the end of 2005 in the country 2349 reserves total area of 1.5 million square kilometers / 15 per cent of the land of the country were created.
The White Paper said, in 1996 - 2005 years in China 952.27 billion yuan has been allocated to combat environmental pollution, accounting for 1% of total GDP for the period. In 2006, expenditure on environmental protection, officially included in the state financial budget.
In 2003, China entered into force "The Law of the PRC on the assessment of the impact on the environment". China pays great attention to the role of science and technology in environmental protection, with emphasis on the development of the industry environment.
In conclusion, the White-Book underlined that the solution of environmental problems with the development objectives of China, favors the well-being of 1.3 billion Chinese people and reflects the common interests of mankind.
"The Chinese Government and people, together with the governments and peoples of other countries will continue to make common efforts to protect our beautiful home - the Earth."