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Legal
Guarantees and International Exchanges
The Chinese government attaches
great importance to the formulation of laws and regulations on environmental
protection, and has brought
the environmental protection work into the legal orbit. Up
to now, five special laws on environmental protection and nine natural
resources laws related to environmental protection have been promulgated.
In addition, the State Council has worked out over 30 administrative
laws and regulations on environmental protection. Along with the
increase of large construction projects, the Chinese government
in 1998 worked out the Regulations on Environmental Protection Management
of Construction Projects to further strengthen environmental protection
management of construction projects, control new pollution sources
and protect the ecological environment.
The Chinese government
has strengthened its cooperation with the UN Environment Program,
the Global Environmental Facility, the World Bank and the Asian Development
Bank, as well as with the developed countries in North America, Western
and Northern Europe and Japan, and the developing nations. In this
regard, China has signed a series of international conventions and
protocols since 1979, including the Convention on International Trade
in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, International Convention
for the Regulation of Whaling, Vienna Convention for the Protection
of the Ozone Layer, Basel Convention on Control of Transboundary Movements
of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, Montreal Protocol on Substances
That Deplete the Ozone Layer (revised version), Framework Convention
on Climate Change, Convention on Biological Diversity, Convention
on Combating Desertification, Convention on Wetlands of International
Importance, Especially as Waterfowl Habitats, and the 1972 London
Convention. China has also worked out the 21st Century Agenda on Environmental
Protection, Action Plan for the Conservation of Biodiversity, Action
Plan for Forestry in the 21st Century, the 21st Century Marine Agenda,
and other important documents, and has performed its obligations. |
