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Recently, the People's Government of Henan Province issued the "Action Plan for Continuous Improvement of Air Quality in Henan Province" (hereinafter referred to as the "Action Plan"). It is mentioned that we need to optimize the transportation structure and improve the green transportation system.

The original text is as follows:

Notice of the People's Government of Henan Province on Issuing the Action Plan for Continuous Improvement of Air Quality in Henan Province

Yuzheng [2024] No. 12

Provincial and municipal governments, Jiyuan Demonstration Zone, Airport Zone Management Committee, and various departments of the Provincial People's Government:

We are now issuing the 'Action Plan for Continuous Improvement of Air Quality in Henan Province' to you, please implement it carefully.

The People’s Government of Henan Province

March 23, 2024

Action Plan for Continuous Improvement of Air Quality in Henan Province

In order to implement the requirements of documents such as the "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Deepening the Battle of Pollution Prevention and Control" and the "Notice of the State Council on Issuing the Action Plan for Continuous Improvement of Air Quality" (Guofa [2023] No. 24), and to deepen the defense of blue skies, effectively solve prominent atmospheric environmental problems that concern the people, and promote high-quality economic development through continuous improvement of air quality, this action plan is formulated.

1、 Overall requirements

　　（一）指导思想。坚持以习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想为指导，全面贯彻党的二十大、二十届二中全会精神，深入践行习近平生态文明思想，全面落实全国生态环境保护大会部署，坚持稳中求进工作总基调，以改善空气质量为核心，以降低PM2.5（细颗粒物）浓度为主线，以协同推进降碳、减污、扩绿、增长为总抓手，以减少重污染天气和解决人民群众身边的突出大气环境问题为重点，大力推动氮氧化物和VOCs（挥发性有机物）协同减排，加快推动产业结构、能源结构、交通运输结构优化调整，完善大气环境管理体系，有效提升污染防治能力，推动大气污染综合治理、系统治理、源头治理，加快形成绿色低碳生产生活方式，努力实现环境、经济和社会效益多赢，建设人与自然和谐共生的美丽河南。

（2） Main objective. By 2025, the PM2.5 concentration in the province will be below 42.5 micrograms per cubic meter, the proportion of days with good air quality will reach 71%, and the proportion of days with severe or above pollution will be controlled within 1.4%. The national task of reducing the total amount of nitrogen oxides and VOCs during the 14th Five Year Plan period will be completed, and Xinyang City and Nanyang City will achieve a second level standard for air quality.

2、 Optimize industrial structure and promote green development of industries

（1） Strictly control the entry barriers for the "two highs" projects. Strictly implement the requirements of the national and provincial "two highs" projects, and strictly prohibit the addition of steel production capacity. Strictly implement relevant industry capacity replacement policies, and new projects can only be put into operation after the replaced capacity and its supporting facilities are shut down. National and provincial performance grading key industries, as well as other industries involving boilers, furnaces, and kilns, new (renovated, expanded) construction projects should generally achieve environmental performance level A or advanced level of clean production in China. Promote the integrated layout of steel, coking, and sintering, significantly reduce independent sintering, pelletizing, and hot rolling enterprises and processes, promote the transformation of blast furnace converter long process steelmaking to electric furnace short process steelmaking, and eliminate outdated coal washing capacity. We will coordinate the implementation of the national requirements for "using steel to determine coke" and study and formulate implementation plans for capacity withdrawal in the coking industry. By 2025, the proportion of short process steelmaking production in the province will reach over 15%, and all steel enterprises in Zhengzhou will withdraw. (The Provincial Development and Reform Commission, the Department of Industry and Information Technology, and the Department of Ecology and Environment are responsible for their respective duties, while the provincial municipal governments, Jiyuan Demonstration Zone, and Airport Zone Management Committee are responsible for implementing them. The following tasks are all the responsibility of the provincial municipal governments, Jiyuan Demonstration Zone, and Airport Zone Management Committee and will not be listed here.)

（2） Accelerate the elimination of outdated and inefficient production capacity. Implement national industrial policies, further improve energy consumption, environmental protection, quality, safety, technology and other requirements for backward production capacity, include processes and equipment from industries with high air pollutant emission intensity, low level of clean production, difficult governance, and overcapacity in the scope of elimination, and gradually withdraw processes and equipment from restricted gas related industries; Accelerate the elimination of stepper sintering machines, pellet vertical furnaces, independent sintering, independent pellet, independent hot rolling processes, as well as semi enclosed silicon manganese alloy, nickel iron, high carbon chromium iron, and high carbon manganese iron electric furnaces; Orderly exit the production lines of sintered bricks and sintered hollow blocks with a capacity of less than 60 million standard bricks per year in the brick and tile industry, and encourage sintered brick and tile enterprises in provincial municipalities, Jiyuan demonstration zones, and aviation port urban planning areas to shut down and exit. By the end of 2024, steel enterprises should orderly withdraw or complete large-scale transformation of blast furnaces with a capacity of less than 1200 cubic meters, steelmaking converters with a capacity of less than 100 tons, steelmaking electric arc furnaces with a capacity of less than 100 tons, and alloy steel electric arc furnaces with a capacity of less than 50 tons. (The Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the Department of Ecology and Environment are responsible for their respective duties.)

（3） Carry out upgrading and transformation of traditional industrial clusters. Each province's municipalities, Jiyuan demonstration zone, and aviation port area shall formulate development plans and special rectification plans for gas related industrial clusters based on the characteristics of industrial clusters within their jurisdiction. They shall further investigate heavy polluting enterprises that do not comply with urban construction plans, industry development plans, and ecological environment functional positioning, and eliminate and shut down a batch, relocate and park a batch, renovate a batch on site, and improve and strengthen a batch in accordance with the law, in order to enhance the green development level of industrial clusters. Implement dynamic zeroing of "scattered and polluting" enterprises, and resolutely prevent the resurgence and relocation of "scattered and polluting" enterprises. Encourage localities to construct "Green Island" projects such as centralized heating centers, centralized spraying centers, centralized organic solvent recycling and disposal centers, and centralized activated carbon regeneration centers according to local conditions. (The Provincial Development and Reform Commission, Department of Industry and Information Technology, Department of Ecology and Environment, and Department of Natural Resources are responsible for their respective duties.)

（4） Accelerate the growth of green and environmental protection industries. Intensify policy support, develop the environmental protection equipment and service industry, encourage third-party treatment of environmental pollution, and guide social capital to actively participate. Support the research and development of major core technologies, promote the industrialization of major technologies and equipment for air pollution control, create a fair competitive environment, and promote the healthy and orderly development of the industry. Intensify the promotion and application of green and low-carbon technologies, and focus on key industries such as steel, building materials, petrochemicals, chemicals, and non-ferrous metals to implement technology demonstration projects such as deep decarbonization of production processes, industrial process reengineering, electricity substitution transformation, and carbon dioxide recovery and recycling. (Led by the Provincial Development and Reform Commission, with cooperation from the Provincial Department of Science and Technology, the Department of Industry and Information Technology, and the Department of Ecology and Environment)

3、 Optimize the energy structure and accelerate the green and low-carbon development of energy

（1） Vigorously develop clean energy. Accelerate the large-scale development of wind power and centralized photovoltaics, carry out the "PV+" public building roof acceleration action, and construct a number of large-scale development projects; Implement centralized and contiguous development of geothermal energy utilization, and construct four 10 million square meter geothermal heating demonstration zones in Zhengzhou, Kaifeng, Zhoukou, and Puyang; Accelerate the construction of hydrogen refueling stations and hydrogen electric oil and gas comprehensive energy stations, and build the Zhengbian Luopu hydrogen corridor. By 2025, the proportion of non fossil energy consumption will reach over 16%, and the proportion of electricity in terminal energy consumption will reach over 27%. (Responsible for the Provincial Development and Reform Commission)

（2） Strictly and reasonably control the total consumption of coal. Develop and implement an action plan for controlling the total amount of coal consumption to ensure the completion of the national task of controlling the total amount of coal consumption during the 14th Five Year Plan period. Focus on reducing coal consumption in non electricity industries, and exclude coal gangue and raw material coal from the assessment of total coal consumption. For new (modified, expanded) construction coal projects, coal equivalent or reduced substitution shall be implemented. If the substitution plan is incomplete, it shall not be approved, and the use of high polluting fuels such as petroleum coke, coke, and blue charcoal shall not be used as coal reduction substitution measures. (Led by the Provincial Development and Reform Commission, with cooperation from the Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment)

（3） Actively carry out the integration of coal-fired boiler shutdown. In principle, the province will no longer add self owned coal-fired units or build coal-fired boilers other than centralized heating, and encourage self owned coal-fired units to implement clean energy substitution. Comprehensively eliminate coal-fired boilers, tea stoves, and commercial stoves with a capacity of less than 35 tons per hour, and basically eliminate coal-fired facilities such as grain storage drying equipment and agricultural product processing. Accelerate the construction of thermal power pipelines, carry out long-distance heating demonstrations, fully utilize the heating capacity of cogeneration power plants, and by the end of 2025, shut down or integrate coal-fired boilers and outdated coal-fired small thermal power units (including self owned power plants) with heating substitution conditions within a heating radius of 30 kilometers for cogeneration power plants with a capacity of over 300000 kilowatts. (The Provincial Development and Reform Commission, the Department of Ecology and Environment, the Department of Housing and Urban Rural Development, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and the Market Supervision Bureau are responsible for their respective duties.)

（4） Implement clean energy substitution for industrial furnaces and kilns. The province will no longer add fuel gas generators, and new (renovated, expanded) heating furnaces, heat treatment furnaces, drying furnaces, and melting furnaces will generally use clean and low-carbon energy. By the end of 2024, the dispersed construction of fuel gas generators will complete the replacement of clean energy or the transformation of centralized gas supply in the park. By the end of 2025, heating furnaces, heat treatment furnaces, drying furnaces, and melting furnaces that use highly polluting fuels will switch to clean and low-carbon energy sources. Coal fired boilers that cannot stably meet standards and industrial kilns that use coal, petroleum coke, residual oil, heavy oil, and other fuels will be eliminated, and the new gasification process of fixed bed intermittent coal gas generators will be completed. (Led by the Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment, with cooperation from the Provincial Development and Reform Commission, the Department of Industry and Information Technology, and the Department of Housing and Urban Rural Development)

（5） Continuously promote clean heating renovation. Intensify efforts to replace civilian loose coal, promote clean heating renovation according to local conditions, support cities such as Pingdingshan, Luohe, and Zhumadian to apply for national clean heating pilot cities, and complete the clean heating renovation tasks of pilot cities such as Xuchang, Shangqiu, and Zhoukou with quality and quantity guaranteed. By the heating season of 2025, the scattered coal in the plain areas of the province will be basically cleared, and the replacement of scattered coal with clean energy in mountainous areas will be steadily promoted. Designate areas that have completed clean heating renovation as high pollution fuel prohibition zones in accordance with the law, rectify illegal sales, storage, transportation, and use of loose coal in accordance with laws and regulations, and prevent the re burning of loose coal. Strengthen the production, supply, and quality supervision of clean coal for areas that have not yet implemented clean heating renovation. (The Provincial Development and Reform Commission, the Department of Industry and Information Technology, the Department of Public Security, the Department of Finance, the Department of Ecology and Environment, the Department of Housing and Urban Rural Development, the Department of Transportation, and the Market Supervision Bureau are responsible for their respective duties.)

4、 Optimize transportation structure and improve green transportation system

（1） Continuously optimize and adjust the transportation structure of goods. For long-distance transportation of bulk goods, priority should be given to railways and waterways, while for short distance transportation, priority should be given to enclosed belt corridors or new energy vehicles and ships. It is encouraged for provincial municipalities, Jiyuan demonstration zones, and aviation port areas to explore and develop the "external collection and internal distribution" mode of intermodal transportation of production and living materials by rail. By 2025, the annual average growth rate of container rail and iron water intermodal transportation will be over 15%, and the waterway freight volume in the province will exceed 70 million tons. We strive to reduce the proportion of road freight turnover in the province by 10 percentage points compared to 2022, and achieve a clean transportation ratio of 80% for bulk materials such as iron ore and coke (including the use of new energy vehicles for transportation, the same below). Accelerate the promotion of "revolving railway" and "revolving water", fully utilize the efficiency of existing lines, promote co line sharing and the transformation of urban railway stations to be suitable for freight transportation. Accelerate the implementation of the "653" project for railway dedicated lines entering enterprises and parks, promote the construction of a number of railway dedicated lines such as China Railway Port and international logistics hubs, support the construction of railway dedicated lines supporting ports in cities such as Zhoukou, Luohe, and Xinyang, and accelerate the construction of railway logistics bases in cities such as Zhengzhou, Nanyang, Luoyang, and Shangqiu. New (renovation, expansion) projects should generally adopt clean transportation methods, and make clean transportation a key focus of project review and supervision. Strengthen measures to ensure land use, acceptance and operation, vehicle allocation, and railway freight rates. (The Provincial Department of Transport, Development and Reform Commission, Department of Natural Resources, Department of Ecology and Environment, and China Railway Zhengzhou Group Corporation are responsible for their respective duties.)

（2） Accelerate the improvement of the green and low-carbon level of motor vehicles. Except for vehicles with special needs, the newly purchased official vehicles by party and government organs in the province have basically achieved new energy conversion. Promote new energy medium and heavy-duty vehicles in industries such as thermal power, steel, coal, coking, non-ferrous metals, cement, and logistics parks, and develop zero emission freight fleets such as pure electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel cells. By the end of 2025, except for emergency vehicles, the province's buses, cruising taxis, and cargo vehicles (including dump trucks, cement tankers, and logistics vehicles), postal vehicles, municipal sanitation vehicles, and ride hailing taxis in urban built-up areas will basically achieve new energy transformation; Eliminate gas trucks using lean combustion technology and diesel trucks with emission standards below National III, and strengthen supervision of the recycling and dismantling of scrapped motor vehicles. Carry out full coverage inspections of new production truck families, standardize road inspections and household inspections of diesel trucks, strengthen the construction of access control systems for key vehicle enterprises, enhance the supervision and inspection of motor vehicle emissions, establish a remote online monitoring platform for heavy-duty diesel vehicles and non road mobile machinery throughout the province, and encourage various regions to carry out fuel evaporation emission control testing. (The Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, the Department of Public Security, the Department of Finance, the Department of Housing and Urban Rural Development, the Department of Ecology and Environment, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Commerce, the Administration Bureau, the Market Supervision Bureau, and the Postal Administration Bureau are responsible for their respective duties.)

（3） Strengthen the comprehensive management of non road mobile sources. Strictly implement the fourth stage emission standards for non road mobile diesel machinery. Expand the scope of prohibited areas for high emission non road mobile machinery, improve control requirements, and include high-frequency use areas of machinery such as railway freight yards, logistics parks, ports, airports, industrial and mining enterprises, and construction sites in the management of prohibited areas. It is prohibited to use non road mobile machinery with exhaust smoke levels exceeding Class III limits and emission standards below National Level 2. Accelerate the upgrading and transformation of railway freight yards, logistics parks, ports, airports, and industrial and mining enterprises' internal operating vehicles and machinery with new energy, and basically realize the new energy transformation of newly added or updated forklifts under 3 tons. Increase the proportion of new and clean energy used by ferries, short distance tourist boats, and port boats. Vigorously promote the elimination of old railway locomotives and encourage railway stations and industries such as coal, steel, and metallurgy to promote new energy railway equipment. By 2025, non road mobile machinery with emission standards below the first stage will be basically eliminated, and the phenomenon of "black smoke" from non road mobile machinery, ships, and railway locomotives will be basically eliminated. During the docking period of major port ships, shore power will be used in principle, and the utilization rate of alternative equipment for airport aircraft auxiliary power devices will remain stable at over 95%. (The Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment, the Department of Industry and Information Technology, the Department of Housing and Urban Rural Development, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Water Resources, the Civil Aviation Henan Supervision Bureau, and the China Railway Zhengzhou Group Corporation are responsible for their respective duties.)

（4） Fully guarantee the quality of finished oil products. Strengthen the supervision of the entire process of oil import, production, storage, sales, transportation, and use, organize special joint law enforcement actions for non-standard oil on an annual basis, comprehensively clean up and rectify self built oil tanks, mobile refueling vehicles (ships), and black refueling stations, and resolutely crack down on the sale of non-standard oil products as engine fuel. Increase the frequency of diesel sampling in trucks, non road mobile machinery, and ship fuel tanks, trace any clues found, and strictly hold relevant producers, sellers, and transporters accountable. (The Provincial Department of Commerce, Development and Reform Commission, Public Security Department, Department of Ecology and Environment, Department of Transportation, Taxation Bureau, Market Supervision Bureau, and Zhengzhou Customs are responsible for their respective duties.)

5、 Strengthen the control of non-point source pollution and improve the level of refined management

（1） Deepen the comprehensive management of dust pollution. Strictly implement the requirements of the "two standards" for dust control, strengthen the fine management of construction enclosures, vehicle washing, wet operations, closed transportation, ground hardening, material coverage, etc., and encourage construction projects to actively adopt green construction technologies such as prefabricated construction. Segmented construction will be implemented for long-distance linear projects such as municipal roads and water management, gradually promoting the installation of online monitoring and video surveillance facilities on construction sites over 5000 square meters and connecting them to local regulatory platforms. Include the cost of preventing and controlling dust pollution in the project cost. Continuously carry out urban cleaning actions, strengthen comprehensive treatment of road dust, and inspect and rectify long undeveloped bare construction land. By 2025, the mechanized cleaning rate of main and secondary roads in urban built-up areas will reach over 90%, and the construction of dust suppression facilities and the closure of material conveying systems for large-scale coal, ore and other dry bulk cargo terminal material yards in cities will be basically completed. (Led by the Provincial Department of Housing and Urban Rural Development, with the cooperation of the Provincial Department of Transportation and the Department of Water Resources)

（2） Accelerate the comprehensive management of mining ecological environment. In principle, newly built mines should simultaneously construct railway dedicated lines or adopt other clean transportation methods. New (renovated, expanded) mines shall be constructed in accordance with the requirements of green mines; Strictly implement relevant requirements for safety production, soil and water conservation, ecological environment protection, etc. for existing mines, and shut down mines that fail to meet the standards after rectification within the prescribed time limit in accordance with the law. Promote equipment upgrading and deep management in the sand and gravel aggregate industry, strictly implement dust prevention and removal measures during ore mining, transportation, and processing, implement clean, intelligent, and green transformation, and improve the level of clean production. (The Provincial Department of Natural Resources, Department of Ecology and Environment, Department of Emergency Response, Department of Water Resources, Department of Industry and Information Technology, and Department of Transportation are responsible for their respective duties.)

（3） Strengthen the comprehensive utilization of straw and prohibit burning. Promote the utilization of straw as fertilizer, feed, fuel, base material, and raw material according to local conditions, improve the standardization and normalization level of straw returning to the field, and improve the straw collection, storage, and transportation system. By 2025, the comprehensive utilization rate of straw in the province will reach over 93%. Improve the grid based supervision system, comprehensively utilize satellite remote sensing, video surveillance and other technological means to strengthen daily supervision, organize special inspections in key areas and key periods, implement the target responsibility assessment and reward and punishment system for straw burning, and strictly implement measures such as accountability talks, economic penalties, and administrative penalties. (Led by the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, with cooperation from the Provincial Department of Finance, Department of Natural Resources, and Department of Ecology and Environment)

（4） Continuously strengthen the control of fireworks and firecrackers pollution. Strictly implement the regulations on the management of fireworks and firecrackers, carry out in-depth special actions to crack down on illegal fireworks and firecrackers, fully leverage the role of the safety control network at the city, county, township, and village levels, increase inspection and prevention efforts in key areas and key periods, and severely punish illegal production, transportation, storage, sales, and illegal discharge of fireworks and firecrackers. (The provincial emergency department, public security department, ecological environment department, transportation department, market supervision bureau, and supply and marketing cooperatives are responsible for their respective duties.)

6、 Strengthen the reduction of multiple pollutants and effectively lower emission intensity

（1） Accelerate the implementation of low VOC content raw and auxiliary material substitution. Strictly implement the VOCs content limit standards for coatings, inks, adhesives, and cleaning agents, establish a joint law enforcement mechanism among multiple departments, and regularly supervise and inspect production enterprises, sales venues, and usage processes. Encourage and guide enterprises to produce and use low VOC content coatings, inks, adhesives, and cleaning agents, promote existing high VOC content product production enterprises to accelerate upgrading and transformation, and increase the proportion of low (no) VOC content products. Intensify efforts to replace low (no) VOCs content raw and auxiliary materials in industries such as industrial coating, packaging printing, and electronic manufacturing. Enterprises that have completed the replacement of raw and auxiliary materials will be included in the "whitelist" management, and self emission reduction will be implemented during heavy pollution weather warning periods. Low (no) VOC content coatings are generally used for outdoor structure protection and urban road traffic signs. (The Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment, Department of Industry and Information Technology, Department of Public Security, and Market Supervision Bureau are responsible for their respective duties.)

（2） Strengthen the comprehensive management of VOCs throughout the entire process. According to the principle of collecting all receivables and categorizing them by quality, unorganized emissions will be transformed into centralized management of organized emissions. Organic waste gas from VOCs containing organic wastewater storage tanks and collection wells (pools) in the plant area should be collected and treated in a closed manner. High concentration organic waste gas discharged from enterprise sewage treatment plants should be collected and treated separately. Construct suitable and efficient governance facilities, and strengthen the operation and maintenance of governance facilities. During the start-up, shutdown, and maintenance of enterprise production facilities, VOCs waste gas generated from operations such as material return, cleaning, and blowing should be collected and processed in a timely manner according to requirements. Torch burning devices shall not be used as daily air pollution treatment facilities. Standardize the detection and repair of VOCs leaks, regularly conduct sealing tests on tank components, and establish a unified information management platform for leak detection and repair in cities and key industrial parks with concentrated petrochemical and chemical industries by the end of 2024. By the end of 2025, volatile organic liquid storage tanks will generally use low leakage tank breathing valves and emergency pressure relief valves, while truck trucks will generally use self sealing quick couplings. (Responsible for the Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment)

（3） Promote in-depth pollution control in key industries. New (renovated, expanded) thermal power, steel, cement, and coking projects in the province should achieve ultra-low emission levels. By the end of 2024, cement and coking enterprises will have basically completed the organized and unorganized ultra-low emission transformation; By the end of September 2025, steel, cement, and coking enterprises will strive to complete the transformation of clean transportation with ultra-low emissions. Continuously promote the deep management of industrial furnaces such as glass, refractory materials, non-ferrous metals, casting, carbon, lime, bricks and tiles, and implement upgrading and transformation of industries such as ceramics, fertilizers, household waste incineration, biomass boilers, etc. By the end of 2025, the low nitrogen combustion transformation of gas boilers will be basically completed; All biomass boilers are equipped with specialized stoves and efficient dust removal facilities such as cloth bags. It is prohibited to mix coal, household waste, and other materials. Promote the integration of small-scale biomass boilers. In principle, it is not allowed to set up smoke and VOCs exhaust gas bypass. If it cannot be cancelled due to safety production needs, smoke automatic monitoring, flow, temperature and other monitoring facilities should be installed and supervision should be strengthened. Key gas related enterprises should add equipment for disposal facilities. (Led by the Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment, with cooperation from the Provincial Development and Reform Commission, the Department of Industry and Information Technology, the Department of Transportation, and the Department of Housing and Urban Rural Development)

（4） Carry out the investigation and rectification of inefficient and ineffective pollution control facilities. Conduct inspections and rectification of inefficient and ineffective air pollution control facilities for industrial furnaces, VOCs related industries, as well as coal-fired, oil fired, and biomass fired boilers. Establish an inspection and rectification checklist and eliminate immature, unsuitable, and unstable emission control processes; Rectify governance facilities with missing key components, poor quality, and low automation level, and improve the level of facility operation and maintenance; Establish a sound monitoring system and improve the quality of automatic and manual monitoring data. Complete the investigation work by the end of June 2024, upgrade and renovate enterprises that have not been equipped with efficient dust removal, desulfurization, and denitrification facilities by the end of October 2024, and include those that have not completed the renovation and upgrading on time in the scope of autumn and winter production regulation. (Responsible for the Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment)

（5） Steadily promote the control of atmospheric ammonia emissions. Carry out pilot projects for ammonia emission control, study measures for controlling ammonia and other odors in livestock and poultry farms, encourage closed management of pig and chicken pens, renovate closed facilities for manure transportation, storage, and treatment, and strengthen waste gas collection and treatment. Promote mechanical deep application of nitrogen fertilizer and low protein diet technology. By 2025, the total atmospheric ammonia emissions from large-scale aquaculture farms will decrease by 5% compared to 2020. Strengthen the management of ammonia emissions in industries such as nitrogen fertilizer and soda ash, and enhance the prevention and control of ammonia escape in key industries such as electricity, steel, coking, cement, and building materials through ammonia desulfurization and denitrification. (The Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the Department of Ecology and Environment are responsible for their respective duties.)

（6） Carry out special treatment of catering fumes and odors. Buildings intending to provide catering services should be designed and constructed with dedicated flues. All catering service units that generate oil fumes should install oil fume purification devices and maintain them regularly to achieve real-time monitoring of oil fume emissions from large catering service units. The monthly inspection rate of catering oil fume purification facilities should not be less than 20%. Strengthen the investigation and rectification of the strong odor and disturbance caused by the public, and install online monitoring systems in industrial parks and key enterprises where complaints are concentrated. (The Provincial Department of Housing and Urban Rural Development and the Department of Ecology and Environment are responsible for their respective duties.)

7、 Improve institutional mechanisms and enhance the level of atmospheric environment management

（1） Implement urban air quality standard management. Each province's municipalities, Jiyuan demonstration zone, and aviation port area shall formulate and implement air quality compliance plans within a specified time limit, clarify the compliance time limit, roadmap, and key tasks, and make them public to the society. By 2025, Xinyang City and Nanyang City will achieve the second level air quality standard, while other cities will have clear targets for the air quality standard stage. Continuously promoting the creation of standard counties (cities), counties (cities) that have already met the standards should consolidate their achievements in meeting the standards, and counties (cities) with the potential to meet the standards should achieve environmental air quality standards as soon as possible. By 2025, we aim to have about 20 counties (cities) in the province achieve secondary air quality standards. (Responsible for the Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment)

（2） Promote the ranking of urban air quality. Each province's municipalities have studied and formulated a ranking promotion plan for 168 key cities nationwide, clarifying the target for promotion and achieving it year by year. In 2024, the top 20 cities in the comprehensive index will achieve a "decrease without increase". By 2025, Anyang City, Hebi City, and Xinxiang City will steadily exit the bottom 10, Jiaozuo City will steadily exit the bottom 20, and other provincial cities will steadily improve their ranking. (Responsible for the Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment)

（3） Positive and effective response to heavy pollution weather. Establish a sound response mechanism for heavy pollution weather warning, enhance the ability to predict and forecast air quality, standardize the workflow of heavy pollution weather warning, activation, response, and release, timely update the emergency emission reduction list, comprehensively adopt remote monitoring, enterprise supervision and guidance, high-value pollution warning, on-site monitoring and traceability, comprehensive analysis and response, and other methods to comprehensively improve the effectiveness of emergency control of heavy pollution weather. Explore the establishment of an emergency linkage consultation mechanism for cities in the border areas of Hebei, Shandong, Anhui, and Henan provinces, carry out cross regional joint prevention and control, information sharing, major project consultation, unified emergency response, and joint cross law enforcement, and strengthen regional joint response. (Responsible for the Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment)

（4） Carry out actions to improve environmental performance levels. Revise the performance grading management measures for key industries, strengthen the standardized management of emergency emission reduction lists, and establish a dynamic adjustment mechanism. Support key industries such as steel, casting, building materials, non-ferrous metals, petrochemicals, chemical engineering, and industrial coatings to improve their environmental performance levels through measures such as equipment updates, technological upgrades, and governance upgrades. Optimize the performance grading management of key industries, establish a list of performance improvement enterprises by industry classification, accelerate the cultivation of a group of provincial-level green benchmark enterprises with high performance levels and strong industry driving force, and promote the overall improvement of the governance capacity of industrial enterprises in the province. (Responsible for the Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment)

8、 Strengthen capacity building and enhance regulatory and law enforcement efficiency

（1） Enhance environmental monitoring capabilities. Continuously optimize the air quality monitoring network, implement the upgrading and transformation of township air stations throughout the province, and achieve full coverage of six factors (PM2.5, inhalable particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, ozone) monitoring within the province as required. Promote the construction of air quality monitoring stations along urban main roads, and carry out integrated monitoring of factors such as PM2.5, non methane total hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxides, and traffic flow. Promote the establishment of specialized monitoring stations in industrial parks to enhance their atmospheric environment monitoring capabilities. Carry out pilot projects for the construction of new pollutant investigation and monitoring capabilities, as well as carbon monitoring and evaluation. Establish and improve the quality control system for ecological environment monitoring, strengthen the supervision and management of monitoring quality, and promote the modernization of the ecological environment monitoring system and monitoring capabilities. (Responsible for the Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment)

（2） Enhance the ability to monitor pollution sources. Regularly update the list of key polluting units in the atmospheric environment, conduct quality checks on pollutant discharge permits, include automatic monitoring requirements in pollutant discharge permits in accordance with the law, urge polluting units to install and use automatic monitoring facilities in accordance with the law, and connect with the ecological environment department to ensure full coverage of eligible enterprises. According to the needs of improving air quality, various regions should expand the installation and networking scope of automatic monitoring facilities, increase monitoring factors, and include ammonia escape in key industries such as electricity, cement, steel, and coking, as well as VOCs in key industries such as petrochemicals, chemicals, industrial coatings, packaging and printing, and the entire process of oil storage, transportation, and sales in the scope of automatic monitoring. Continuously promote the improvement of electricity and energy monitoring capabilities, strengthen the joint monitoring of production status, pollution control facility operation, and pollution emissions, and improve the non site supervision and law enforcement system mainly based on automatic monitoring of pollution sources. (Led by the Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment, with the cooperation of the Provincial Electric Power Company)

（3） Strict law enforcement and supervision of atmospheric environment. Implement the "double random, one open" regulatory system, carry out cross regional joint law enforcement on air pollution, strengthen law enforcement monitoring and linkage, focus on investigating and punishing illegal behaviors such as unlicensed or non compliant discharge, illegal discharge by bypass, failure to install or operate pollution control facilities, excessive discharge, and falsification of monitoring data. Continuously optimizing law enforcement and supervision methods, actively promoting "off-site law enforcement", establishing a list of rectification issues for prominent problems, organizing inspections of rectification situations, and implementing a list based closed-loop management. Establish and improve the evaluation and assessment management system for law enforcement personnel. (Responsible for the Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment)

（4） Strengthen technological support for decision-making. Carry out research and development of technologies and equipment related to air quality improvement, such as VOCs emission pollution control and multi pollutant system treatment. Strengthen data interconnection and sharing, enhance the capacity building of ecological environment data interconnection and sharing, and realize the networking and sharing of ecological environment governance and supervision data, video signals, and ecological environment departments in relevant departments such as public security, housing and urban-rural development, transportation, water conservancy, agriculture and rural areas, meteorology, and electricity. Strengthen the application of data analysis technology and accurately control high-value hotspots. (The Provincial Department of Science and Technology, the Department of Ecology and Environment, and the Administrative Approval and Government Information Management Bureau are responsible for their respective duties.)

9、 Establish a sound regulatory and standard system, and improve environmental and economic policies

（1） Strengthen the construction of the regulatory and standard system. Study and draft the "Henan Province Clean Production Promotion Regulations (Draft)". Strengthen the construction of the ecological environment standard system, formulate and implement emission standards for air pollutants in industries such as fertilizers, waste incineration power generation, ceramics, lead and zinc, and technical specifications for air pollution prevention and control in the sand and gravel aggregate industry, promote the improvement of pollution control level and green and low-carbon development in key industries. (The Provincial Development and Reform Commission, the Department of Ecology and Environment, and the Market Supervision Bureau are responsible for their respective duties.)

（2） Improve the mechanism of price incentives and constraints. Strengthen the coordination between pricing policies and industrial and environmental policies, comprehensively consider energy consumption and environmental performance levels, and implement a tiered electricity pricing system for high energy consuming industries; Implement supportive electricity pricing policies for port shore based power supply and encourage localities to reduce shore power usage service fees; Improve the time of use electricity pricing policy and provide electricity pricing support for charging public buses and trams. Implement subsidies and price incentives for clean heating, reduce the number of gas transmission and distribution layers in urban areas, and improve the linkage mechanism between terminal sales prices and procurement prices. Encourage railway freight rates to adopt the "quantity price mutual insurance" agreement transportation mode. (The Provincial Development and Reform Commission, Department of Transportation, Department of Housing and Urban Rural Development, Department of Ecology and Environment, etc. are responsible for their respective duties.)

（3） Give full play to the role of fiscal and financial guidance. Actively adjusting the structure of fiscal expenditure, making atmospheric environmental governance a key area of public fiscal expenditure, increasing credit and financing support for traditional industries and cluster upgrading, industrial pollution control, railway dedicated line construction, promotion of new energy railway equipment, environmental protection equipment industry, and guiding social capital investment. Continuously developing green finance and attracting long-term institutional investors to invest in green finance products. Actively support eligible enterprises and financial institutions to issue green bonds, encourage the development of green bond credit ratings, and improve the level of information disclosure for green bonds. (The Provincial Development and Reform Commission, the Department of Finance, the Department of Ecology and Environment, the Department of Housing and Urban Rural Development, the Henan Branch of the People's Bank of China, the Henan Regulatory Bureau of the State Administration of Financial Regulation, and the Henan Securities Regulatory Bureau are responsible for their respective duties.)

10、 Consolidate work responsibilities and gather joint efforts for pollution control

（1） Strengthen organizational leadership. Adhere to and strengthen the comprehensive leadership of the Party in the prevention and control of air pollution. Each region should organize the preparation of implementation plans, clarify work objectives, governance tasks, and safeguard measures, refine division of responsibilities, establish task lists and ledgers, strengthen supervision and handling, and promote the effective and orderly completion of various tasks. The implementation plans of each province's municipalities, Jiyuan Demonstration Zone, and Airport Zone must be submitted to the Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment for filing.

（2） Strengthen the implementation of responsibilities. Governments at all levels are responsible for the overall air quality in their respective administrative regions; All relevant departments should conscientiously fulfill their regulatory responsibilities, formulate implementation plans for air pollution prevention and control in their respective fields, timely introduce relevant policies, strengthen overall coordination, the development and reform department is responsible for implementing the action of controlling the total amount of coal consumption, the industry and information technology department is responsible for implementing the action of phasing out outdated production capacity, the transportation department is responsible for implementing the action of cleaning transportation, the ecological environment department is responsible for implementing the action of ultra-low emission transformation in key industries, and the housing and urban-rural development department is responsible for implementing the comprehensive prevention and control of dust non-point source pollution, promoting the implementation and effectiveness of various measures.

（3） Strict supervision and assessment. Making the completion of air quality improvement targets an important aspect of assessing the effectiveness of pollution prevention and control efforts, and providing incentives according to regulations to places that achieve secondary air quality standards and achieve air quality improvement targets; Punish areas that have not achieved the goal of improving air quality from aspects such as fund allocation, project approval, and accountability, conduct public interviews with key government officials, and cancel provincial-level ecological civilization honorary titles. Timely organize and carry out special inspections on ecological environment protection in areas where the promotion work is ineffective, responsibilities are not fully implemented, air quality has significantly deteriorated, and air pollution problems are prominent.

（4） Implement a nationwide action plan. Establish a sound mechanism for releasing ecological and environmental news, and timely release information on air quality, environmental law enforcement, and emergency response to heavy pollution weather. Establish a sound mechanism for public supervision, reporting rewards, and handling feedback, encourage the public to actively provide clues on environmental violations, and expose typical cases of illegal behavior. Vigorously promote public participation, strengthen citizens' environmental awareness, advocate volunteer service actions, encourage starting from oneself, form a simple, moderate, green, low-carbon, civilized and healthy lifestyle and consumption mode, and jointly improve air quality.

Article source: Reprinted from Commercial Vehicle News Network