Environmental Engineering Reference
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4. Forest reserves will increase by 6 billion cubic meters, and the forest coverage
rate is to reach 21.66 %.
5. Continue to make binding targets on chemical oxygen demand and sulfur
dioxide emissions;
6. Based on the need to improve the quality of the environment, nitrogen oxides
and ammonia are included in the binding targets.
Later, the National Development and Reform Commission published the main
objectives of resource-saving and environmental protection in 2011:
1. Energy consumption per unit of GDP to decline by 3.5 % over the previous year;
2. Emissions of sulfur dioxide, chemical oxygen demand, ammonia and nitrogen
oxide pollutants to decrease by 1.5 % over the previous year;
3. Water consumption per 10,000 yuan industrial added value to drop 7 % com-
pared to the previous year;
4. Comprehensive utilization of industrial solid waste to increase by 1 percentage
point over the previous year;
5. Urban sewage treatment rate to reach 80 %;
6. Harmless treatment rate of municipal solid waste to reach 74 %.
6.9.4 Features of Environmental Protection in the 12th Five-Year
Plan
In the environmental field, the 12th Five-Year Plan will mainly focus on issues
affecting sustainable development that threaten public health. It will have the
following goals [
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1. Tightly focus on the theme of scientific development and the main line of
transforming the economic development mode.
2. Improve controls on the total amount of pollution.
3. Resolve the outstanding environmental issues affecting people's livelihood and
prioritize the improvement of the quality of the environment.
4. Strengthen the pollution control work in the focus areas, highlighting pollution
prevention and control of heavy metal, hazardous wastes, persistent organic
pollutants and dangerous chemicals.
5. Promote the construction of an environmental public service system to ensure
the balanced development of urban and rural areas and to earnestly safeguard the
public interests and the environment.
6. Deepen the policy of promoting environmental management by strengthening
pollution prevention and control in rural areas and improve environmental
conditions in rural areas.
7. Highlight differentiated environmental management policies and an improved
environmental protection strategy system.
8. Stress market-based instruments to promote the construction of long-term
environmental protection mechanisms.
