Official Reply of the State Council concerning the approval of the Water Contamination Management Plan of Huai River and the Ninth 5-year Plan. Country/Territory China Document type Miscellaneous Date 1996 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Water, Waste & hazardous substances Keyword Waste disposal Waste management Waste non-domestic sources Waste prevention Effluent waste water/discharge Policy/planning Pollution control River basin institution Freshwater pollution Geographical area Asia, Asia and the Pacific, East Asian Seas, Eastern Asia, North Pacific, North-West Pacific Abstract Replied by state Official Letter No. 52 of 1996. It approves the Water Contamination Management Plan of Huai River and the Ninth 5-year Plan, which was submitted with Letter No. 345 of 1996. It requires the Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu and Shandong provinces people's government to make the implementation plan jointly with other department concerned, to ensure the achievement of the goals, which are: I) to meet the standards for industrial pollution discharge by the year 1997; and II) to decontaminate the waters of the river by the year 2000. In order to improve the operation of wastewater disposal, it suggests establishing experimental units in the concerned cities to charge the wastewater deposal, and the fees shall use for the construction and operation of the waste disposal facilities. Full text Chinese