Three-year Action Plan for Special Campaign on Improving Ecological Environment in Dongting Lake Launched

2018-01-15
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Recently, the General Office of the Hunan Provincial People's Government issued the "Three-year Action Plan for Special Campaign on Improving Ecological Environment in Dongting Lake (2018-2020)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Three-year Action Plan") to focus on the remediation of Dongting Lake's ecological environment in ten key fields and nine key areas. By 2020, the water quality of Dongting Lake is expected to meet the Grade III standard.

The ten key fields include: to comprehensively promote the prevention and control of agricultural non-point source pollution, to deepen the treatment of urban and rural domestic pollution, to concentrate on the rectification of industrial pollution, to strengthen the prevention and control of pollution from ships, to ensure the safety of drinking water, to carry out dredging of ditches, to push forward the treatment of black-odor water, to regulate sand excavation in lake area, to accelerate the ecological restoration of wetlands, and to strengthen the prevention and control of schistosomiasis. 

The nine key areas include: Datong Lake, Huarong River, Shanpo Lake, Anle Lake, Chongtian Lake-Majiaji River, Dongfeng Lake-Jijia Lake, Yuanjiangqi Lake, Huangjia Lake, and, Taohuajiang Lake.

Translator: Chen Yu
Chinese source: yueyang.gov.cn