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Figure 2: Map of prefectures within TAR
Environmental management <strong>and</strong> integrated governance has been strengthened
<strong>and</strong> emissions reductions <strong>and</strong> environmental protection m<strong>and</strong>ates have been enforced.
More than 30 environ mental impact assessment programmes have been
carried out. Since 2001, more than 3,700 environmental impact assessment reports
have been approved for construction projects, with their implementation
rate reaching 90 %, <strong>and</strong> even 100 %, for large-<strong>and</strong>-medium-sized construction
projects. The “veto power of environmental protection” <strong>and</strong> the “three simultaneous
qualifications” systems have been instituted. Environmental monitoring
<strong>and</strong> regulation for 30 high-risk enterprises has been strengthened as the TAR
People’s Government signed letters of responsibility with seven prefectures
(cities) to control the total amount of major pollutants released during the
“Eleventh Five-Year” period (Figure 2). More than one billion Yuan has been
invested to accelerate urban environmental infrastructure construction, <strong>and</strong>
hundreds of millions of Yuan have been invested to treat key pollution sources.
On the basis of the pilot project in Lhasa, the campaign against, so-called,
“white pollution” is now in full swing in the TAR. Large-scale events such
as “China’s Environmental Protection Progress in the New Century – Tibet”
have been organized four times since 2003, <strong>and</strong> the “Special Environmental
Protection Action Against Illegal Sewage Discharging Companies to Protect
People’s Health” initiative has been held six years in a row. Environmental law
enforcement supervision has also been strengthened regarding mineral, water,
tourism, Tibetan medicine <strong>and</strong> other resource development <strong>and</strong> infrastructure
projects.
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