China plans to toughen emission checks on steel mills

China will continue to enforce production restrictions in heavy industry in wint...

BEIJING - China will continue to enforce production restrictions in heavy industry in winter this year and will tighten its emission assessment on steel mills when granting exemptions from curbs already in place, an environment ministry official said on Saturday.

“The steel industry remains a major contributor of pollutants despite improvement in emission levels and production restrictions...This year, there will not be many first-class firms that will be exempt from curbs,” Liu Bingjiang, the head of the atmospheric environment department at Ministry of Ecology and Environment , told an industrial conference.

China, the world’s biggest steel producer, has ordered mills in key regions, including Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, the Fenwei Plain and the Yangtze River Delta, to meet ultra-low emission standards by 2020.Companies who attain “ultra-low” emission standards are entitled to be exempt from or are allowed to implement a minimum level of production cuts during smog days.

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