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Beijing will relocate all polluting enterprises to the surrounding region by the end of 2016, to help clean the city’s air.
According to Beijing Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology, the city has removed 865 enterprises that are highly polluting and energy-consuming by June, since the government launched the “Clean Air Campaign” in 2013. It plans to relocate 1,200 polluting enterprises by the end of next year.
Zhang Boxu, director of the municipal commission of economy and information technology, said the government will raise the environmental threshold for enterprises in Beijing, and provide relocation subsidy and tax exemption to encourage enterprises to move out of the capital city.
“We will issue a package of policies to push the relocation process,” Zhang said.
The municipal government, nagged by heavy pollution and more complaints from the public, has taken painstaking efforts to clean the air, including controlling the number of vehicles on the road and pushing forward industrial restructuring and upgrading.
Zhang said that Beijing will stick to three principles in industry transformation and upgrading, against the background of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei integrated development.
The government will restrict access to new projects, ensuring adding no more environmental burden to the city. It will promote technical innovation and enhance manufacturing techniques to reduce energy consumption and emissions. The heavy polluters will be eliminated or relocated.
