The “national pollution source census census is significant.” The responsible person said, the first national pollution census work carried out in 2007 has achieved remarkable results, and play an important role in the environmental protection work in 10 years. But after 10 years of development, China’s industrial economy and social structure of the population, and the type of pollution source, distribution, scale and nature have undergone tremendous changes. At the same time, influence of rural non-point source, non road mobile sources and volatile organic pollutants on the environment quality gradually, the urgent need for the investigation on the system of emission. With the whole society pays more attention to the quality of the ecological environment, the public need to obtain environmental information is more and more urgent.

What are the pollution source census? In short, who is in the range of sewage, where, what, how to arrange the pollutants, how governance, these are to find out.

The responsible person said, the census census includes basic information, pollutants and sources of pollutants and emissions, pollution control facilities construction and operation etc.. Not only that, we must establish sound files for key pollution sources, pollution source information database and environmental statistics platform.

The distribution of the number of pollution sources and industries and regions, generation and emissions of major pollutants and the treatment situation, this information is very important.” The responsible person said, in order to find out to accurately determine the current environmental situation in China, to improve the quality of the environment as the core to implement the environmental protection policy planning, and constantly improve the environmental management system, scientific, legal, fine and the level of information technology, accelerate the construction of ecological civilization, has important significance in comprehensive completion the construction of ecological environment in short of well-off society.