Seven pilot areas "third party pollution control"

Zhang Quan, director of the Shanghai Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau, said at the “2015 China World Expo Summit Forum” held recently that Shanghai’s environmental pollution control will be dominated by the “polluter and governance” of the past, “responsibility for polluters, third-party governance, government supervision, and society”. Supervision, polluters, and third parties govern the transformation of the operational mechanism of pollution control markets through the mutual supervision and restriction of enterprises through contracts. According to the requirements of the country, Shanghai is further promoting the third party governance of environmental pollution, and will continue to guide, so that third-party governance continues to expand and expand. By 2017, Shanghai will basically form a third-party governance market mechanism that is unified, open, competitive, and in good faith.

Polluters, by paying or paying fees according to the contract, entrust third-party professional environmental service companies to carry out pollution control - that is, the new pollution control model of "third-party environmental pollution treatment." At present, Shanghai is in the power plant dust removal off * denitrification, urban sewage treatment, industrial wastewater treatment, organic waste gas treatment, restaurant fume control, construction dust control, automatic continuous monitoring of the seven major areas of pilot environmental pollution third party governance. According to incomplete statistics, as of now, there are more than 150 third-party corporate governance companies in Shanghai, and the production value in 2014 was about 6 billion yuan.

“The power plant is focused on power generation, pollutants treatment and discharge standards are done by third-party agencies and professionals, and the effect is better.” Zhang Quan said that many years of practice shows that the third-party governance model can overcome most companies’ “re-production, light environmental protection”. The faults of the company make up for the shortcomings such as lack of expertise, knowledge, and lack of talents in environmental protection and pollution control. For companies that cause environmental pollution and do not have pollution control capabilities, Shanghai is considering to consider implementing third-party governance in certain areas.

At present, the municipal party committee has included the use of market mechanisms to promote pollution third party governance as a point of comprehensive deepening reform. The municipal government has also issued the “Guiding Opinions on Accelerating the Third Party Governance of Environmental Pollution in the City”, and the Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau has issued the “ The city's environmental pollution third-party governance pilot work program. In addition, the Municipal Bureau of Environmental Protection and other departments will jointly formulate the “Administrative Measures on Third Party Governance of Environmental Pollution in Shanghai”.