Environmental Protectin China
pays great attention to environmental legislative work and has now established
an environmental statutory framework that takes the Constitution of the People’s
Republic of China as the foundation and the Environmental Protection Law of the
People’s Republic of China as the main body. The Constitution
of the People’s Republic of China stipulates, "The state protects and improves
the living environment and the ecological environment, and prevents and remedies
pollution and other public hazards." and "The state ensures the rational use of
natural resources and protects rare animals and plants. The appropriation or
damage of natural resources by any organization or individual by whatever means
is prohibited." The Environmental Protection Law of the
People’s Republic of China is the cardinal law for environmental protection in
China. The law has established the basic principle for coordinated development
between economic construction, social progress and environmental protection, and
defined the rights and duties of governments at all levels, all units and
individuals as regards environmental protection. China has
enacted and promulgated many special laws on environmental protection as well as
laws on natural resources related to environmental protection. They include the
Law on the Prevention and Control of Water Pollution, Law on the Prevention and
Control of Air Pollution, and so forth. The Chinese government
has also enacted more than 30 administrative decrees regarding environmental
protection, including the Regulations for the Prevention and Control of Noise
Pollution, and so on. To implement the state’s environmental protection laws and
regulations, people’s congresses and people’s governments at local levels,
proceeding from specific conditions in their own areas, have enacted and
promulgated more than 600 local laws on environmental protection. China pays great attention to environmental legislative work.______