People’s Daily Online
9th Feb, 2010
Pollution in China will likely reach its peak when GDP per capita amounts to 3,000 U.S. dollars, said Zhang Lijun, vice minister of the Ministry of Environmental Protection at a press conference on Tuesday.
The report on the first national census on pollution sources was issued by three ministries including the Ministry of Environmental Protection Tuesday morning.
5.93 million Censuses have been counted covering industrial sources, agricultural sources, life sources and centralized pollution control facilities, providing government with 1.1 billion basic facts, according to the report.
According to experiences from the developed countries, pollution will reach peak when a nation’s GDP per capita amounts to 3,000 U.S. dollars and will drop thereafter.
Zhang said China has always implemented a plan controlling the total amount of major pollutants and has expanded the number of major pollutants types counted so as to probably achieve the co-ordination between economic development and environmental protection before the GDP per capital reaches 3,000 U.S. dollars. In other words, pollution in China will reach peak before GDP per capital amounts to 3,000 U.S. dollars and the environment will gradually improve as a result.