Zhang lijun, vice-minister of environmental protection in Beijing on April 8, met with visiting feike sijbesma, chief executive of royal Dutch DSM group. The two sides will strengthen cooperation in the field of environmental protection and exchanged views on issues of common concern.
Mr. Zhang, first of all, on behalf of the ministry of environmental protection, welcomed the arrival of feike sijbesma line and briefly introduces the progress was made in China's environmental protection work and the "twelfth five-year" development plan. He said, a great progress has been made in environmental protection in China, mainly in four aspects: one is to effective energy conservation and emissions reduction work, chemical oxygen demand and sulfur dioxide overfulfilled the main pollutants emission reduction task as determined in the period of "11th five-year plan". Infrastructure construction, speed up the environment during the period of "11th five-year plan", the national total of new sewage treatment capacity of more than 60 million tons/day, urban wastewater treatment rate to 75% or more. Three industrial structure adjustment is made a great show, 2006-2006, shut down power 60.06 million kw, and eliminate backward iron steel production capacity of more than 100 million tons. Four is environmental quality improved significantly, compared with 2005, 2009 key environmental protection cities dropped 24.6%, and the average concentration of sulfur dioxide in air of surface water by the section average concentration of permanganate index fell by 29.2%, the state-controlled section seven drainage Ⅰ ~ Ⅲ water ratio increased by 16.1%.
"Twelfth five-year" period, puts forward new requirements for the environmental protection work of the CPC central committee and the state council, in accordance with the requirements, the content of environmental protection "twelfth five-year" plan will affect the sustainable development of resolving the environmental problems and solve the environmental problems that harm people's health two key, deepen the total emissions, improve environmental quality and prevent environmental risks, guarantee the balanced development between urban and rural areas.
Zhang lijun, said ministry of environmental protection and the Netherlands has always maintained good relations of cooperation in the field of environment, in the Dutch environmental protection within the framework of the memorandum of cooperation, in the field of solid waste management, soil environment protection project carried out a series of successful cooperation. Today after, China will further strengthen chemical environmental management, chemical prevention and control of environmental risk actively, strictly chemical enterprise emissions standards, vigorously promote clean production and hope DSM group, to strengthen the exchanges and cooperation with Chinese enterprises share the advanced experience of environmental protection.
Feike sijbesma DSM group are introduced in the latest development in areas such as chemical, pharmaceutical, and material and technology, and the positive progress was made in China's environmental protection cause. He said, the economic development and environmental protection must be together, hope the two sides to strengthen cooperation in the future, to promote the progress of environmental protection.