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District plan targets air and water
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A Shanghai district yesterday unveiled its 2016 plan for improving the quality of its air and water.
Suburban Jinshan is home to a bustling chemical industry and has been identified by the city government as a target district in its ongoing anti-pollution efforts.
According to the district’s plan, an environmental monitoring center will be established, its environmental protection enforcement team will be strengthened, some plants and farms will be shut down, rivers will be cleaned up, and trees will be planted.
Seventy-one low-productivity, heavy polluting enterprises, including Xinye Copper Company, will close in 2016, and two more will be upgraded to comply with environmental standards.
The district will also shut down 126 livestock and poultry farms.
Twenty-six enterprises will be required to take measures to reduce air pollution by controlling the emission of VOCs (volatile organic compounds).
Various environmental improvement measures will be implemented in Zhujing Town’s Xinjing Village and Jinshanwei Town’s Weitong Village and Nongjian Village.
The district also plans to improve air quality by planting oxygen-producing trees over an area of at least 1.3 million square meters.
The district plans to rehabilitate local rivers by undertaking clean-up work on 32.4 kilometers of freshwater this year.
The local authorities said that by the end of this year, all rivers within the district will be cleaned up to the point that there will no longer be any stretches of dark, smelly water.
At the beginning of this year, the city government ordered all 15 districts and Chongming County to name key areas where they plan to carry out environmental improvements in 2016.
The old residential areas downtown and densely populated villages have been identified as major improvement targets this year.
The district completed the closure or renovation of about 600 heavy polluting enterprises in 2015. Among the operations shut down was the Wan’an Cement Plant, which produced harmful air pollution by burning waste.
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