The Stoppage Order Is Coming Again! For 6 Months! Involving 28 Cities!

Recently, the Ministry of ecology and environment issued the action plan for the comprehensive tackling of air pollution in Beijing, Tianjin and surrounding areas in the autumn and winter of 2019-2020 years (Draft), which is what we call "stoppage order". As mentioned above, 2020 is the target year and key year for the three year action plan to win the blue sky defense, and the success of the 2019-2020 year's autumn and winter will directly affect the achievement of the 2020 target. It is predicted that the overall deviation of meteorological conditions in autumn and winter in the 2019-2020 years is not conducive to the spread of air pollutants, and further increases the pressure of air pollution control. We must take greater efforts and more practical measures to counteract the negative effects brought by unfavorable weather conditions.

The paper gives a detailed description of the overall requirements, main tasks and safeguard measures of the action plan, and makes detailed arrangements for the elimination of backward production capacity in the cement industry, as well as nitrogen oxides, particulate matter emissions and site dust control, and mine management.

The special rectification time is from October 1st 2019 to March 31st 2020, a total of 6 months. So what areas do the stoppage orders involve? What new changes will this year's shutdown occur? How should the major enterprises respond?

What areas do the stoppage order involve?

The stoppage order covers the following cities:

Beijing, Tianjin;

Hebei, Shijiazhuang, Tangshan, Handan, Xingtai, Baoding, Cangzhou, Langfang and Hengshui.

Shanxi, Taiyuan, Yangquan, Changzhi and Jincheng.

Shandong, Ji'nan, Zibo, Jining, Dezhou, Liaocheng, Binzhou, Heze;

Henan, Zhengzhou, Kaifeng, Anyang, Hebi, Xinxiang, Jiaozuo and Puyang.

Referred to as "2+26" city.

Date of enquiry: September 17, 2019

The annual autumn and winter season is the most serious fog and haze. Now the two round of environmental protection in the country is still in progress. Environmental monitoring in all parts of the country has improved the air significantly.

What changes have taken place in this year's policy?

Key points for stopping production and limiting production

Iron and steel, coking, brick and tile industry implemented partial peak production. In Tianjin, Shijiazhuang, Tangshan, Handan, Xingtai, Anyang and other key cities, steel production capacity is limited to 50% during the heating season, and the percentage of other cities can not be less than 30%.

Stop production limit two

Before the end of September 2019, a new round of "scattered pollution" enterprises' investigation was completed, and classified disposal was carried out according to the principle of "stopping first and then treating".

Stop production limit three

Since October 1, 2019, the special emission limits of air pollutants for brick and tile, steel, petrochemical, chemical, nonferrous metals (alumina), cement industry and industrial boilers have been strictly implemented.

Stop production limit four

It is understood that recently, the Ministry of ecology and environment also informed the implementation of the environmental administrative penalty cases and the "environmental protection law" supporting measures in the first half of 2019.

In the first 6 months of this year, a total of 72192 decisions on environmental administrative penalties were issued, and the total amount of penalty was 5 billion 850 million 307 thousand and 800 yuan, and the four provinces that were more punishments were Jiangsu, Guangdong, Hebei and Shandong. Now that the new stoppage order is coming, the supervision must be intensified.