中华人民共和国生态环境部
Ministry of Ecology and Environment

Progress of Water Environment
Governance in China
Li Jing, Li Liping

The 14th WEPA Annual Meeting
22 February 2019Tokyo

Facts and statistics of water quality
Year

COD
discharge
10,000tons

Ammonia
NitrogenHousehold Discharge
discharge
10,000tons

Industrial
discharge

2011

2499.9

354.8

938.8

2012

2423.7

338.5

2013

2352.720142015

Industrial
discharge

Householddischarge

260.4

28.1

147.7

912.8

253.6

26.4

144.6

319.5

889.8

245.7

24.6

141.4

2294.6

311.4

864.4

238.5

23.2

138.2

2223.5

293.5

846.9

229.9

21.7

134.1

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Facts and statistics of domestic wastewater
management
year

Waste Water discharged(100 million cu.m)

Waste water treatment
rate(%)

2011

403.7

83.6

2012

416.8

87.3

2013

427.5

89.3

2014

445.3

90.2

2015

466.6

91.9

2016

480.3

93.4

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Facts and statistics of Industrial wastewater
management

Guidelines:
1. Please include volume of treated anduntreated industrial wastewater
2. Number of industries that can comply
Compliance and incompliance ratio
3. Please use table or graph to visualize thelatest data4

Legislative framework for water environmental
governance
Legislation and polices

Key elementsnotes

Law of Environmental
Protection

Clarifies the relations between environment anddevelopment by prioritizing environmental
protection
Steps up punitive measures against disobeying
companies by imposing fines with no maximum
amountA seperate chapter on information disclosure

Effective from Jan. 1st,
2015
Up to 70 Articles
compared with 47 inprevious law

Water Pollution
Prevention & Control
Law

Requirements for wastewater prevention
and treatment

Effective in 2018

Action Plan forPrevention and Controlof Water Pollution

Specific rules over industrial sewage
prevention and treatmentEffective in 2015

Standards for industrial
sewage dischargeStandards for sewage discharge fromdifferent industries

Discharge permitting
systemGetting permit to discharge

5Institutional framework for water environmental
governance
Ministry

Mandates

Ministry of Ecology and Environment

Supervision and management of water
environmental protection

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Rural environment

Ministry of Water Resources

Water resources

Ministry of Natural Resources

Ocean Resources

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Water quality monitoring framework
Monitoring
agencyfrequency

Number ofmonitoring
pointsChina National
Monitoring
Center

Weekly andtimely

148

parameters

pH*, DO, CODM, NH3-N

Reportingsystemauto

Provisional
monitoring
center
City monitoring
center7

Enforcement instruments for water environment
management in China
Bureau of Environmental
Supervision(BES) of MEE

NortheastBES

Northern
China BES

Northwest
BES

Center for Env.
Emergency andAccident
investigation

Southwest
BES

Eastern
China

Southern
China

Provincial BESs

City-level BESs

County BESs

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Future targets/plans, issues and challenges
MEP of water environment governance Implement the Water Pollution Prevention & Control Law and Action Planfor Prevention and Control of Water Pollution

2 Deepening pollution prevention and control in key basins and establish
function zoning management system.
 guarantee safe sources of drinking water
 treating black and odorous water bodies in cities Treating water pollution in industrial agglomeration areas on acentralized basis
 Boosting prevention and control of agricultural and rural pollution
 strengthening wetland protection and restoration
 to improve environmental supervision and law enforcement mechanism,
develop Environmental Protection Inspection once more.

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