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China’s Notification on the 2nd National Census of Pollution Sources

China’s state council has notified the impending launch of the country’s 2nd National Census of Pollution Sources on Dec 31, 2017. This census aims to investigate work units and individual enterprises that are sources of pollution. The scope of this investigation involves industrial, agricultural and domestic pollution sources, centralized pollution control facilities, mobile sources and other facilities that produce pollutants.

Specifically, the content of this investigation is as follows:

1.   For industrial pollution sources (including all industrial work units that produce wastewater, waste gas and solid waste): Basic enterprises status; raw material consumption and production; facilities that produce pollution; the generation, control, emission and utilization of pollutants; the constructions and operations of pollution control facilities.

In industrial wastewater: chemical oxygen demand, ammonia nitrogen, total nitrogen, total phosphorus, petroleum, volatile phenol, cyanide, mercury, cadmium, lead, chromium, and arsenic.

In industrial waste gas: Sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, particulate matter, volatile organic compounds, ammonia, mercury, cadmium, lead, chromium, and arsenic.  

General industrial solid waste and hazardous waste are included, namely their generation, storage, disposal, and utilization. Radioactive pollutants, produced during the mineral acquisition, smelting and processing of 15 mineral products (such as rare earth), will be checked as well.

2.   For agricultural pollution sources (Including planting; livestock and poultry breeding; aquaculture production): Disposal and resource utilization of the waste straw; the usage of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and membrane; current status, pollution control and waste resource utilization of livestock and poultry breeding companies and farmers who have been registered in this investigation.

In wastewater: chemical oxygen demand (only required for livestock and poultry breeding and aquaculture), ammonia nitrogen, total nitrogen and total phosphorus.

In waste gas: ammonia (in planting and livestock and poultry breeding) and volatile organic compound.

3.   For centralized pollution control sites (including work units that dispose of household waste, hazardous waste, and wastewater):

Basic information of work units, facilities’ capacity of pollution control, disposals of wastewater and solid waste, and generation, disposal and emission of secondary pollutants.

In wastewater: Chemical oxygen demand, ammonia nitrogen, total nitrogen, total phosphorus, five days biochemical oxygen demand, animal and vegetable oil, volatile phenol, cyanide, mercury, cadmium, lead, chromium, and arsenic.

In waste gas: Sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, particulate matter, mercury, cadmium, lead, chromium, and arsenic.

There will also be an examination of the generation, storage, and disposal of sewage sludge, waste incineration residues and fly ash.

4.   For mobile source(including agricultural and construction machines ):

The holdings of the mobile source and emission-related information, volatile organic compound (exclude ships), nitrogen oxide and particulate emission, sulfur dioxide emission (for some types of mobile sources only).

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