In 2017, Chengdu's air pollution prevention and control work proposed the "650" project, which includes the "six major actions" of reducing coal consumption, controlling vehicles and reducing oil, pollution control and emission reduction, clean dust reduction, comprehensive law enforcement actions, and technological haze control, and implements 50 measures including responsibility implementation and comprehensive support. This was learned by reporters from the Chengdu Environmental Protection Bureau on the evening of the 26th.

2017 is the final assessment year of the national "Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan" (Ten Measures), and air quality has attracted more social attention. It is understood that the provincial government's air quality targets for this year have not yet been officially issued, and Chengdu has initially clarified its air pollution prevention and control work goals—ensuring the completion of the targets specified in the State Council's "Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan", with annual average concentrations of PM10 and PM2.5 decreasing by 25% and 20% respectively compared to the assessment base year; at the same time, continuing to focus on improving air quality, making precise efforts, and striving to achieve better air quality improvement than in 2016. How to achieve these goals and obtain "excellent" in the final assessment? Chengdu has marked key points in its air pollution prevention and control "battle map".

In order to intensify pollution control with an iron fist and strive to protect the blue sky, based on learning from the practices of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and other cities, Chengdu will launch the "six major actions" to ensure the completion of this year's annual work goals.

Launch the coal consumption reduction action

Strive to achieve a elimination rate of over 50% of in-use coal-fired boilers in Chengdu before November

Chengdu will vigorously promote the elimination of in-use coal-fired boilers and clean energy transformation, including completely "clearing" all coal-fired boilers in high-pollution fuel prohibition zones in Chengdu, accelerating the elimination of coal-fired boilers of 10蒸吨 (steam tons) and below, and wood and biomass fuel boilers, and striving to achieve a elimination rate of over 50% of in-use coal-fired boilers in Chengdu before November.

Maximize the reduction of local emissions from the power industry. Chengdu's two coal-fired power plants must implement measures such as reducing power generation and off-peak production from November 1 to reduce coal use; carry out a special action for comprehensive compliance of boilers, complete a comprehensive inspection of the compliance of in-use coal-fired boilers in Chengdu, order the cessation of use and impose fines for non-compliance, and simultaneously publish the inspection list to the public; at the same time, strictly implement the environmental impact assessment system and registration system for new coal-fired boilers, and in principle, no new coal-fired boilers will be built within the Chengdu area.

Launch the pollution control and emission reduction action

Establish a volatile organic compounds pollution source emission list before the end of April

In launching the pollution control and emission reduction action, Chengdu will strictly supervise key enterprises. Key air-related enterprises controlled by the city and above will formulate annual "one enterprise, one policy" emission reduction plans. Those that cannot complete the emission reduction governance targets will be subject to production suspension or restriction measures in winter; enterprises in the cement, glass, and steel production industries in Chengdu will be required to formulate and implement ultra-low emission work plans within a time limit, and implement off-peak production during key periods each year; strengthen the operation and management of online monitoring facilities in key industries such as power, steel, cement, and glass, and those that cannot stably meet emission standards will be suspended for rectification;

Increase efforts to eliminate outdated production capacity, vigorously eliminate production enterprises below scale that do not conform to industrial development planning, and accelerate the completion of eliminating outdated production capacity in building materials industries such as bricks and tiles, ceramics, etc.; orderly promote the low-nitrogen combustion technology transformation of gas boilers in high-pollution fuel prohibition zones;

Strengthen the treatment of volatile organic compounds, establish a volatile organic compounds pollution source emission list before the end of April, and all key emission enterprises must install online monitoring facilities; fully implement volatile organic compounds treatment projects in key industries such as industrial coating, printing and packaging, and wooden furniture production, and carry out special treatment in six major key industrial parks such as Xindu Longqiao Furniture Park; complete the inspection and random testing of oil and gas recovery devices at 200 gas stations and oil storage depots in Chengdu before the end of June, and all oil storage depots with an annual turnover of 5,000 tons or more must install online oil and gas monitoring facilities;

Carry out comprehensive rectification of "small, scattered, chaotic, and polluting" enterprises, strengthen the cleanup and rectification of small enterprises and small boilers outside industrial parks, and take measures of "two cuts and three clearances" (cutting water and electricity, and clearing raw materials, equipment, and products) to ban illegal polluting enterprises.