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To better protect the environment, another environmental
protection law will be made in China to assess consequences of governmental
policies or planning to environment.
The draft law was submitted Friday to the 19th meeting of the Standing
Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) for deliberation.
Wang Tao, vice-chairman of the NPC Environmental and Resources Protection
Committee, gave a presentation on the draft law to the plenary meeting
of the NPC Standing Committee Friday.
Wang said, currently the environmental consequence assessment system
only covers construction projects. The proposed draft law expands
the assessment to include governmental policy-making and planning.
Therefore, the enacting of the law is sure to benefit the environment
and the sustainable development of the national economy, he said.
The draft law states that governments at and above the city level
should organize environmental consequence assessments and submit
reports on such assessments when making policies or plans that might
bring about negative environmental consequences.
(Xinhua 12/22/2000)
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