Measure Aimed At Cutting Pollution
China’s cabinet, the State Council, announced on Tuesday that it will continue to shut down outdated industrial capacity to reduce pollution, save energy, and upgrade industry.
The industrial sectors affected include power, coal, steel, cement, non-ferrous metals, coke, paper making, tannery and printing and dyeing, according to the statement.
The statement said that by the following are expected to close by the end of 2010:
• more than 50 million kilowatts of small coal-fired power generators
• 8,000 small coal mines which are lacking in safety standards, or are not what it described as "environmentally friendly".
• coking coal makers with a coking chamber height of less than 4.3 metres
• mill furnaces below 6,300 kilovolts in the ferro-alloy s and calcium carbide
Steelmaking furnaces smaller than 400 cubic metres will be shut down by the end of 2011 and the statement added that the government will also close outdated capacity in the construction materials, light industry and textile industry sectors.
The government has been stepping up the shutdown of outdated production capacity with 21.13 million tonnes in the iron-smelting industry, 74.16 million tonnes in the cement industry and 18.09 million tonnes in the coke industry all being phased out.
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