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Water environment administrative structure

The responsibilities of water environment related Ministries

Referred form:
Tenth-Five-Year Plan of the Water Pollution Prevention and Control in Taihu Lake Basin

According to the Tenth-Five-Year Plan of the Water Pollution Prevention and Control (Take Taihu Lake as an example), the ministries (local governments) related to water environment and their main responsibilities are listed below:

1. The People’s Government of Jiangsu, Zhejiang Province and Shanghai City
   The People’s Government of Jiangsu, Zhejiang Province and Shanghai City should be responsible for the water environment quality of the area under its own jurisdiction. Annual and comprehensive implementation plan for the total amount pollution reduction and regulation plan for industrial structure and distribution should be established, and corresponding measurement should be taken to ensure the total amount pollutants reduction and provincial section water quality. Progress assessment of the water pollution and control for each people’s government should be carried out annually, and the results should be reported to the State Environment Protection Administration for record.
   
2. National Development and Reform Commission (Former State Planning Commission)
   Instruct and supervise the investment for the comprehensive environmental renovation, bring the water pollution prevention and control into the national economic and social development plan, arrange and fulfill the national subsidy for the Tenth-Five-Year plan of Taihu Lake water pollution prevention and control.
   
3. National Development and Reform Commission (Former State Economic and Trade Commission)
   Instruct and supervise the implement of local industrial structure regulation, technique renovation and cleaner production. Take into consideration of the small chemical plant and printing and dyeing factories of heavy pollution and unstable discharge during the ‘List of the elimination of low throughput, poor techniques and products’ setup.
   
4. Ministry of Science and Technology
   Organize and promote the water pollution prevention and control research furthermore, and the researches are focus on non-point pollution, polluted water body restoration, etc. Fulfill the key scientific problem research setup and demonstration in the water pollution prevention and control plan of Taihu Lake basin.
   
5. Ministry of Finance
   Instruct and supervise the investment fulfillment of the projects listed in the Tenth-Five-Year plan.
   
6. Ministry of Construction
   Strengthen the instruction, supervision and management during the construction of municipal sewage treatment plant, especially for the earlier stage preparation, bidding and project quality. Organize and carry out the regional integrated water supply projects, strengthen the instruction of municipal water saving in Taihu Lake basin. Instruct and supervise the establishment and implementation of the construction plan for township sewage and domestic garbage treatment plant. Instruct and promote industrialization, specialization and socialization for the municipal basic establishments, accelerate the benign cycle of the wastewater and garbage treatment charge system.
   
7. Ministry of Transportation
   Instruct and supervise the implementation of sea-route renovation and shipping pollution prevention and control.
   
8. Ministry of Water Resources
   Distribute the water resource of Taihu Lake basin comprehensively, improve the water utilization certification management. Adopt comprehensive measurements as water saving, transfer and sludge dredging, etc. Testify the feasibility of water transfer form Yangtze River to Taihu Lake project and lake sludge dredging project furthermore, bring forward the corresponding plan and then carry out it. Sound implementation plan for the upstream erosion prevention of Taihu Lake basin should be presented.
   
9. Ministry of Agriculture
   Instruct and supervise the implementation of the rural environment protection projects such as: prevention and control of agricultural non-point pollution cause by aquiculture and livestock breeding, ecological agriculture construction, and non-pollution green food base construction, etc. Investigate the mechanism of agricultural non-point pollution, study the non-point pollution prevention and policy instruction, bring forward corresponding plan and then carry out it.
   
10. State Forestry Bureau
    Responsible for the function ecology restoration, protection and construction such as: shelter forest belt system construction, wetland restoration and bio-diversity protection, etc.
    
11. National Tourism Administration
    Instruct and supervise the plan implementation of pollution treatment of tourism accommodation, restaurant and scenery places.
    
12. State Environmental Protection Administration
    Supervise and manage the water pollution prevention and control implementation systematically, create well conditions for the unified meeting, organize and coordinate the key environment problem solution in the basin, and organize the implementation examination of each department.

Water Pollution Prevntion and Control Plan

National Level (Approved by State Council)

1. Tenth-Five-Year Plan of the Water Pollution Prevention and Control in Tai Lake Basin
2. Tenth-Five-Year Plan of the Water Pollution Prevention and Control in Chao Lake Basin
3. Tenth-Five-Year Plan of the Water Pollution Prevention and Control in Dianchi Lake Basin
4. Tenth-Five-Year Plan of the Water Pollution Prevention and Control in Huaihe River Basin
5. Tenth-Five-Year Plan of the Water Pollution Prevention and Control in Liaohe River Basin
6. Tenth-Five-Year Plan of the Water Pollution Prevention and Control in Haihe River Basin
7. Action Plan for Blue Sea of Bohai
8. Water Pollution Prevention and Control Plan for the Three Gorge Reservoir and Its Upstreams

Provincial Level

Notes: Data of Hongkong, Macao and Taiwan are not included in the material mentioned above.