Environmental Protection
 
Item Unit 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001

1. Basic conditions of environmental protection system

               
Total number of people engaged in environmental protection
10,000 9 9.6 10.3 11.2 11.8 13.1 14.2
Number of supervising and administrative personnel
10,000 1.5 1.7 2 2.3 2.9 3.1 3.3
Number of people engaged in environment monitoring
10,000 3.5 3.7 3.7 3.7 3.6 4.0 4.4
Environment monitoring stations
  2155 2223 2170 2127 2111 2249 2229

2. Environmental pollution control

               
Rate of construction projects subject to evaluation
               
of their influence on surrounding environment
% 81.6 81.6 85 91.1 90.5 91.5 92.0
Surrounding environment                
Number of environmental pollution
% 83.1 90 95 95.3 95 98.0 96.0
control projects completed within the specified time
  4527 5517 4533 11935 24907 38101 19571
Investment in environmental pollution control projects 100              
set for completion within the specified time
million yuan 37.8 42.4 78.9 69.4 123.1 317.5 117
Rate of industrial waste water discharge up to standard
% 55.4 59.1 61.8 65.3 66.4 82.2 85.7
Rate of treated industrial waste gas
% 82.5 84.4 86.3 87.1 85.1 89.8  
Rate of comprehensive treatment of industrial solid wastes
% 66.3 60.5 62.2 62.5 59.3 51.8 52.1
Number of smoke/dust control zones in cities
  3002 2319 2339 2446 2364 2981 3314
Area of smoke/dust control zones
Sq. km 12532 12961 15791 13796 16000 20000 21000
Number of noise control zones up to standard in cities

1862 1734 1822 1814 2040 2463 3121
Area of noise control zones
Sq. km 4733 6222 6913 8148 8975 13000 14000
Number of heavy-polluting enterprises banned and closed
    60700 65244   9175 19498 7047

3. Protection of ecological environment

               
Total number of nature reserves
  793 799 926 926 1146 1227 1551
State level
  98 106 124 136 137 155 171
Area of nature reserves
10,000 hectares 7172 7185 7698 7671 8815.2 9821 12989
Proportion of the area of nature reserves to the total land area
% 7.18 7.19 7.67 7.67 8.8 9.9 12.9
Number of ecological demonstration zones
              215
State level
              82
Area of ecological demonstration zones
10,000 hectares         3330.9    

Note: The number of ecological demonstration zones and the area of ecological demonstration zones were new

indicators added in 1999.