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The Longways National Forest Park is a nationally protected nature area in Huinan County, Jilin, China.

Formal environmental protection in China House was first stimulated by the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm, Sweden. Following this, they began establishing environmental protection agencies and putting controls on some of its industrial waste. China was one of the first developing countries to implement a sustainable development strategy. In 1983 the State Council announced that environmental protection would be one of China’s basic national policies and in 1984 the National Environmental Protection Agency (NEPA) was established. Following severe flooding of the Yangtze River basin in 1998, NEPA was upgraded to the State Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) meaning that environmental protection was now being implemented at a ministerial level. In 2008, SEPA became known by its current name of Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People’s Republic of China (MEP). # ISO certification in India

Command-and-controlEconomic incentivesVoluntary instrumentsPublic participation
Concentration-based pollution discharge controlsPollution levy feeEnvironmental labeling systemClean-up campaign
Mass-based controls on total provincial dischargeNon-compliance finesISO 14000 systemEnvironmental awareness campaign
Environmental impact assessments (EIA)Discharge permit systemCleaner productionAir pollution index
Three synchronization programSulfur emission feeNGOsWater quality disclosure
Deadline transmission tradingAdministrative permission hearing
Centralized pollution controlSubsidies for energy saving products
Two compliance policyRegulation on refuse credit to high-polluting firms
Environmental compensation fee

Environmental pollution and ecological degradation has resulted in economic losses for China. In 2005, economic losses (mainly from air pollution) were calculated at 7.7% of China’s GDP. This grew to 10.3% by 2002 and the economic loss from water pollution (6.1%) began to exceed that caused by air pollution. China has been one of the top performing countries in terms of GDP growth (9.64% in the past ten years). However, the high economic growth has put immense pressure on its environment and the environmental challenges that China faces are greater than most countries. In 2010 China was ranked 121st out of 163 countries on the Environmental Performance Index. # ISO certification in India

China has taken initiatives to increase its protection of the environment and combat environmental degradation:

Rapid growth in GDP has been China’s main goal during the past three decades with a dominant development model of inefficient resource use and high pollution to achieve high GDP. For China to develop sustainably, environmental protection should be treated as an integral part of its economic policies. # ISO certification in India

Quote from Shengxian Zhou, head of MEP (2009): “Good economic policy is good environmental policy and the nature of environmental problem is the economic structure, production form and develop model.” # ISO certification in India

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