2. Blue Water Project

Keep on pushing, supervising the implementation and tracing management of < Blue Water Project >. Since the announcement and implementation of < Blue Water Project > 5 years ago, has invested 7 billion Yuan and has finished 60 projects, with 49 Pear River Basin item, with investment of 6 billion. Because of the successful implementation of the <Blue Water Project>, the water quality of the major rivers in Guangdong is in good quality, and improvement also occurred in serious polluted river, like Xiao Dongjiang, DanshuiRiver and Pearl River Guangzhou section. The East GuangdongThree River (Han River, RongRiver, LianRiver)water pollution control project has began. July, provincial government held the pollution controlled working meeting of East Guangdong, and detail arrangements has been settled. The water quality issue of East Guangdong can be solved hopefully.

8th-9th,October 2002, the provincial CCP committee and provincial government held the pollution controlled working meeting of Pearl River in Guangzhou, and asked to live up toSee obvious improvement in 1 year, no more dark and smell in 3 years, the river water become clean in 8 years . The Guangdong EPB started to issue the monthly report of provincial major river water quality, and decided to issue the river water quality weekly report from 1st January 2003

Speed up the construction course of urban sewage treatment plants. <Notice about development suggestion on promoting urban sewage and rubbish treatment industrialization > from Nation Planning Committee, MOC and CEPA is being reissued together by the Guangdong EPB, Guangdong Planning Committee, Guangdong Construction Bureau and the Price Bureau. Shenzhen, Foushan and Chaozhou cities have implemented theBundle Operationof water and sewage treatment, carried out a united management and operation in water supply and sewage treatment. Zhuhai city used the TOT and BOT method instead of the government undertake all investment and construction method, greatly quicken the construction path of urban sewage treatment facilities.

Besides, the Dong-shen water supply project has been strengthened. By the time-limit control of industrial pollution sources, cleaning up breeding farms along the project; constructed domestic sewage treatment facilities and channel water quality clarified project, the water quality supplying to Hong Kong is being guaranteed.

3. Blue Sky Project

The implementation of <Guangdong Blue Sky Project> has been speeded up constantly. The urban ambient air quality has been maintain to national standard Grade II, and the dust pollution has been reduced; cities with acid rain occurred also decreased, and the provincial acid rain frequency has been decreased slightly. The pollution emission registration system for application and changes is still undertaking. 2002, the provincial industrial desulfurization is 13.3%, a bit higher than last year; rate of soot removal is 97.51%, dust removal is 91.4%, balanced with last year's data.

The meeting of sustainable development and environmental protection cooperation group of Hong Kong and Guangdong is held in Hong Kong. ¡°United declaration of improving the air quality of Pearl River Delta¡± is announced together by the Guangdong and Hong Kong government. The special group for managing and supervising the air of Pearl River Delta is set up and the first meeting is being held.

Assisted the Provincial NPC in the inspection of the implementation status of <Air Pollution Control Law> in Guangzhou, Foushan and Qingyuan cities. In local administrative, we started to operae the new<air pollutant emission limit standard> from 1st of January, and in the mean time organized 6 terms of standards training course through out the province

Keep on going on the instruction and examination work of urban dust control region and construction of noise standardize region, enhance on the management work of the automobile tail-gas emission. The overall provincial urban air quality has been improved, compared with last year's data.