New round of environmental compliance inspection launched in China’s five provinces

Date:03-25-2022

The second round of the 6th environmental compliance regulatory action was launched with approval from the Chinese central government recently. 

Five inspection teams were dispatched to the five provinces (autonomous regions) of Hebei, Jiangsu, Inner Mongolia, Tibet and Xinjiang.

During the inspection, the inspection team will inspect the implementation of major national strategies covering the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, the development of the Yangtze Economic Belt, the integrated development of the Yangtze Delta, the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin. 

The inspection team will check upon the random launch of project involving high energy consumption and high pollution. It will monitor the implementation of production capacity reduction, supervise the corrective measures against major ecological damage, environmental pollution and environmental risk, and verify the corrections requested in the previous round of inspections.