Evaluation on Implementation of China's Emission Standards

Emission standards implementation was a process that the relevant government departments urged the dischargers to carry out emission standards to achieve the objectives of 'compliance emission'. The implementation of China’s emission standards had realized the status of initial compliance emission and promoted the environmental protection and technology advancement in some degree. However, it still had some problems, for instance, the emission monitoring schemes could not fully judge the dischargers’ reaching the status of 'continuous compliance emission'; indemnificatory of implementation means was not strong enough; implementation efficiency was low, evaluation and update mechanism were lack. It was recommended that corresponding emission monitoring schemes should be designed to achieve the status of 'continuous compliance emission', permit system be completed to guarantee effective implementation of emission standards, and the mechanisms of assessment and update of emission standards be established to promote the pollution control technology advancement timely and reasonably.