Environmental protection urged amid economic slowdown

 BEIJING, May 26 (Xinhua) -- Governments and enterprises should hold on to emission¹ reduction efforts despite cooling economy and resist the temptation of spurring economy through energy-inefficient industrial projects, officials and experts said Saturday.

 

"We need to refrain from using the current economic slowdown as an excuse to loosen the environmental protection standards for mega projects with high energy consumption and high emission," Sun Youhai, a researcher with the China Institute of Applied² Jurisprudence said at a forum³ on recycling economy held here Saturday.

 

Sun said some provinces have already failed their annual emission-reduction targets, thus making the country's environmental protection even more difficult in the future.

 

According to the Ministry⁴ of Environmental Protection, the investment demand in the environmental protection sector⁵ will be about 3.4 trillion yuan (539.68 billion U.S. dollars) in the 12th Five-year Plan period ending 2015.

 

"The environmental protection industry itself has a promising⁶ future," Bie Tao, deputy director of the ministry's policies and laws department told the forum.

 

He said the ministry has approved plans on over 6,000 water pollution prevention and control projects across the country by 2015, with a total investment of 346 billion yuan.

1 emission   

n.发出物，散发物；发出，散发

参考例句：

• Rigorous measures will be taken to reduce the total pollutant emission.采取严格有力措施，降低污染物排放总量。
• Finally,the way to effectively control particulate emission is pointed out.最后，指出有效降低颗粒排放的方向。

2 applied   

adj.应用的；v.应用，适用

参考例句：

• She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
• This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。

3 forum   

n.论坛，讨论会

参考例句：

• They're holding a forum on new ways of teaching history.他们正在举行历史教学讨论会。
• The organisation would provide a forum where problems could be discussed.这个组织将提供一个可以讨论问题的平台。

4 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

5 sector   

n.部门，部分；防御地段，防区；扇形

参考例句：

• The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
• The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。

6 promising   

adj.有希望的，有前途的

参考例句：

• The results of the experiments are very promising.实验的结果充满了希望。
• We're trying to bring along one or two promising young swimmers.我们正设法培养出一两名有前途的年轻游泳选手。