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China – Wuhan Second Urban Transport Project

Status of Projects in Execution (SOPE) – FY09 : East Asia and Pacific region – China

The Status of Projects in Execution (SOPE) report for FY09 provides information on all International Bank and Rural Development (IBRD)/International Development Association (IDA) projects that were active on June 30, 2009. The report is intended to bridge the gap in information available to the public between the project appraisal document, disclosed after the Bank approves a project, and the implementation completion report, disclosed after the project closes. In addition to the project progress description, the FY09 SOPE report contains project level comparisons of disbursement estimates and actual disbursements, and a table showing the loan/credit/grant amount and disbursements to date for all active projects.

A comparative perspective on poverty reduction in Brazil, China and India

Brazil, China and India have seen falling poverty in their reform periods, but to varying degrees and for different reasons. History left China with favorable initial conditions for rapid poverty reduction through market-led economic growth; at the outset of the reform process there were ample distortions to remove and relatively low inequality in access to the opportunities so created, though inequality has risen markedly since. By concentrating such opportunities in the hands of the better off, prior inequalities in various dimensions handicapped poverty reduction in both Brazil and India. Brazil’s recent success in complementing market-oriented reforms with progressive social policies has helped it achieve more rapid poverty reduction than India, although Brazil has been less successful in terms of economic growth. In the wake of its steep rise in inequality, China might learn from Brazil’s success with such policies. India needs to do more to assure that poor people are able to participate in both the country’s growth process and its social policies; here there are lessons from both China and Brazil. All three countries have learned how important macroeconomic stability is to poverty reduction.

Implications of the growth of China and India for the other Asian giant : Russia

Continuing rapid growth of China and India can be expected to raise incomes in Russia, but also to put adjustment pressure on Russian firms. The impacts of the rapid growth of China and India on the Russian economy are explored by examining a baseline projection using a global general equilibrium model, and then assessing the implications of higher-than-expected growth in China and India. The authors find that a major source of benefits to Russia is likely to be terms-of-trade improvements associated with higher energy prices – a quite different channel of effect from that for many developing countries that benefit primarily through expanded opportunities to trade directly with these emerging giants. Taking into account the likely improvements in the quality and variety of exports from China and India, the gains to Russia increase substantially. The expansion of the energy sector and the contraction of manufacturing and services are a sign of a Dutch disease effect that will increase the importance of policies to encourage adaptation to the changing world environment.

An analysis of various policy instruments to reduce congestion, fuel consumption and CO2 emissions in Beijing

Using a nested multinomial logit model of car ownership and personal travel in Beijing circa 2005, this paper compares the effectiveness of different policy instruments to reduce traffic congestion and CO2 emissions. The study shows that a congestion toll is more efficient than a fuel tax in reducing traffic congestion, whereas a fuel tax is more effective as a policy instrument for reducing gasoline consumption and emissions. An improvement in car efficiency would also reduce congestion, fuel consumption, and CO2 emissions significantly; however, this policy benefits only richer households that own a car. Low-income households do better under the fuel tax policy than under the efficiency improvement and congestion toll policies. The congestion toll and fuel tax require the travel cost per mile to more than triple. The responsiveness of aggregate fuel and CO2 are, approximately, a 1 percent drop for each 10 percent rise in the money cost of a car trip.

The pattern of growth and poverty reduction in China

China has seen a huge reduction in the incidence of extreme poverty since the economic reforms that started in the late 1970s. Yet, the growth process has been highly uneven across sectors and regions. The paper tests whether the pattern of China´s growth mattered to poverty reduction using a new provincial panel data set constructed for this purpose. The econometric tests support the view that the primary sector (mainly agriculture) has been the main driving force in poverty reduction over the period since 1980. It was the sectoral unevenness in the growth process, rather than its geographic unevenness, that handicapped poverty reduction. Yes, China has had great success in reducing poverty through economic growth, but this happened despite the unevenness in its sectoral pattern of growth. The idea of a trade-off between these sectors in terms of overall progress against poverty in China turns out to be a moot point, given how little evidence there is of any poverty impact of non-primary sector growth, controlling for primary-sector growth. While the non-primary sectors were key drivers of aggregate growth, it was the primary sector that did the heavy lifting against poverty.

China – Wenchuan Earthquake Reconstruction Project : procurement plan

China – Second Phase Liuzhou Environment Management Project

East Asia & Pacific Countries Vulnerable To Climate Change, But ‘Climate-Smart’ World Is Still In Reach

Contacts: 
Merrell Tuck, tel.(202) 473-9516
mtuckprimdahl@worldbank.org
Kavita Watsa, tel. (202) 458-8810
kwatsa@worldbank.org 

WASHINGTON, September 15, 2009 — The latest World Development Report finds that although many countries in the East Asia and Pacific region are vulnerable to climate change, developing countries can shift to lower-carbon paths while promoting development and reducing poverty if they receive financial and technical assistance from high-income countries.

World Development Report 2010: Development in a Changing Climate, released in advance of the December meetings on climate change in Copenhagen, says that advanced countries, which produced most of the greenhouse gas emissions of the past, must act to shape our climate future. If developed countries act now, a ‘climate-smart’ world is feasible, and the costs for getting there will be high but still manageable. Ramping up funding for mitigation in developing countries where most future growth in emissions will occur is vital.

« Countries must act now, act together and act differently on climate change, » said World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick. « Developing countries are disproportionately affected by climate change – a crisis that is not of their making and for which they are the least prepared. For that reason, an equitable deal in Copenhagen is vitally important. »

Countries need to act now because today’s decisions determine both the climate of tomorrow and the infrastructure and built-environment choices that shape the future. Countries need to act together because no one country can take on the interconnected challenges posed by climate change, and global cooperation is needed to improve energy efficiency and develop new technologies. Countries need to act differently, because business-as-usual could put the world onto a potentially catastrophic path with unacceptable costs to development.

Developing countries will bear most of the costs of the damage from climate change. Many people in developing countries live in physically exposed locations and economically precarious conditions, and their financial and institutional capacity to adapt is limited, says the report. Over half the countries in the East Asia and Pacific region are Pacific island nations, a number of which may not exist in 50 years on the current global climate path. Already, policymakers in some developing countries note that an increasing amount of their development budget is being diverted to cope with weather-related emergencies.

In the East Asia and Pacific region, the report finds three major drivers of climate vulnerability:

1. The large number of people living along the coast and on low-lying islands—for example over 130 million people in China, roughly 40 million in Vietnam and around 2 million Pacific Islanders, many of whom live on low lying islands and atolls.
            
2. The continued reliance, particularly among the poorer countries, on agriculture. As pressures on land, water, and forest resources increase—as a result of population growth, urbanization, and environmental degradation caused by rapid industrialization—greater variability and extremes will complicate their management. In the Mekong River basin, for example, the rainy season will see more intense precipitation, while the dry season lengthens by two months.
            
3. The regional economies’ high dependence on marine resources. The value of well-managed coral reefs is $13 billion in Southeast Asia alone—which are already stressed by industrial pollution, coastal development, overfishing, and runoff of agricultural pesticides and nutrients.

For developing countries to achieve the shift to a lower-carbon world depends on financial and technical assistance from high-income countries, the report says. High-income countries also need to act quickly to reduce their carbon footprints and boost development of alternative energy sources to help tackle the problem of climate change.

The report cites examples of strong action to combat climate change in the region. The Chinese government has taken the most aggressive energy efficiency campaign and has the largest renewable energy capacity in the world. Its target of a 20 percent reduction in energy intensity from 2005 to 2010 would reduce annual CO2 emissions by 1.5 billion tons by 2010, five times the 300-million-ton reduction of the European Union’s Kyoto commitment. In Rizhao, a city of 3 million people in northern China, skyscrapers are built to use solar power, and 99 percent of Rizhao’s households use solar-power heaters. In total, the city has over 500,000 square meters of solar water heating panels. As a result, energy use has fallen by nearly a third and CO2 emissions by half. Meanwhile, the Philippines and Indonesia have the world’s second and third largest geothermal capacities respectively.

The remarkable high economic growth in East Asia and Pacific, accompanied by rapid urbanization, deforestation and land use changes, comes at a heavy environmental price. Coal still dominates the energy mix in the region and most countries—whose average per capita emissions remain a fraction of those of high-income countries—need massive expansions in energy, transport, urban systems, and agricultural production. Sustaining growth using high-carbon technologies will produce more greenhouse gases, hence more climate change.

« Solving the climate problem requires a transformation of the energy systems towards higher energy efficiency and more low-carbon technologies, » Justin Lin, World Bank Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President, Development Economics. « It is in the interests of developing countries to act now to avoid locking into high-carbon infrastructure. » 

The World Bank Group’s « Strategic Framework for Development and Climate Change » emphasizes mitigation and adaptation initiatives in its lending, while recognizing that developing countries need to encourage economic growth and reduce poverty. Investments in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and climate adaptation projects are growing.

The number of World Bank-financed studies that help client countries plan and implement low-carbon growth strategies are also growing, and the Bank Group’s energy financing is increasingly turning towards renewable energies and energy efficiency. In the East Asia & Pacific region, the Bank has completed several studies on the impacts of climate change and vulnerabilities to natural disasters and is increasing its support for climate change adaptation.

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China Playing Important Role in Steadying World Economy, Zoellick Says

Contact: 

In Beijing: Li Li (8610)5861 7850

Mobile: (86) 13501258056

lli2@worldbank.org

 

BEIJING, September 2, 2009 – China is taking decisive action to help stabilize the world economy and is persisting with efforts to re-balance its economy towards greater domestic demand, said World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick.

 

“China has steered a steady course through the stormy seas of the economic crisis,” Zoellick said during his third official visit to China as World Bank Group president. “Through its massive stimulus and strong lending program, China has contributed to the early signs of a global recovery by keeping its growth rate up. With growth in China now projected at close to 8 percent for 2009 as a whole, and signs of stabilization in many other economies in Asia and around the world, the chances of a truly global recovery have increased measurably.”

 

Zoellick said he was especially impressed by the fact that the recent rebound in the Chinese economy had come almost entirely from domestic demand. This had led to a welcome pick-up in imports, especially in raw materials from within and outside the Asia-Pacific region as well as in machinery and equipment.

 

“China’s trading partners are benefiting from this domestic demand and that is helping to strengthen levels of confidence across the world,” he said. “The challenge for China now is to deepen the domestic consumption trend through even stronger government investment in health and education, financial sector reform, liberalizing services further, and strengthening the integration of migrants in China’s cities.”

 

A key aspect of China’s stimulus is the extent of its investment in energy efficiency and low-carbon alternatives to road and air transport. “Through its stimulus package, China is spending $90 billion on new rail projects this year, with a similar amount planned for next year,” Zoellick said. “China will spend $85 billion on energy conservation and environmental measures in 2009-10. These are wins for the people of China as well as for the global environment.” 

 

Zoellick discussed emerging signs of global recovery and the Chinese economy yesterday with Premier Wen Jiabao.

 

Over the past two days, Zoellick also met with State Councilor Dai Bingguo, Minister of Finance Xie Xuren, Chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission Zhang Ping, Governor Zhou Xiaochuan of the People’s Bank of China, Minister of Commerce Chen Deming, Chairman of the China Banking Regulatory Commission Liu Mingkang, Chairman of China Investment Corporation Lou Jiwei, Deputy Administrator of the State Forestry Administration Zhu Lieke and Vice  President of the Export-Import Bank of China Zhu Hongjie.  

 

Tomorrow, Zoellick will visit Anhui Province to see World Bank Group-supported projects in forestry, water conservation and highway development.  He will also meet students from the University of Science and Technology of China to discuss China’s role in global economic recovery.

 

After departing Beijing on Friday morning, Zoellick will attend the G20 finance ministers’ meeting in London.

 

For more information on the World Bank’s program in China, please visit: www.worldbank.org/china

China – Ningxia Highway Project : social assessment

The development objective of the Ningxia Highway Project of China is to improve the attractiveness and competitiveness of the Ningxia Autonomous Region through a more effective, equitable, and sustainable use of the regional road infrastructure in support of industry and poor agricultural producers as measured by reduced transit times on improved highways and improved access for rural communities. Ningxia has an ambitious highway development plan but because of the sparse population density and resulting low traffic levels has to address long term financial sustainability issues. A social screening will be carried out to identify the potential impacts of both the expressway and first-year rural roads program on indigenous peoples. As a result, it is too early to determine whether any negative impact is triggered and the extent, if any, that minority communities would be affected by land acquisition and structure demolition. For this screening, the client will pay particular attention to analyzing the mitigation measures for livelihoods restoration based on broad consultation.

Appraisal report on social impact

The objective of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Shanghai Agricultural and Non-Point Pollution Reduction Project for China is to reduce the rural and agricultural pollution to the East China Sea through demonstration of effective and innovative pollution reduction activities in Shanghai’s selected rural areas. Negative measures include: land of industrial park at town’s level impact on land, impact on rural society and daily life, impact on fertilizer and pesticides, and impact on crop. Mitigation measures include: a) qingpu water resource bureau will grant compensation to departments of local government or individuals; b) establishment of new socialist countryside is a major direction of economic construction development in the long term which should be persisted; c) improve utilization rate of productive fertilizer and pesticide, to upgrade agricultural green control technology and to reduce environment pollution by residues of fertilizer, pesticides, and agricultural organic wastes by means of promotion of agrotechnical measures from demonstration bases radiating outside; d) for the affected crops: it will be compensated in line with standard, including seasonal vegetable grown by villagers in Bei Wangbang and Luo Tianbang villages.

Resettlement action plan

The objective of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Shanghai Agricultural and Non-Point Pollution Reduction Project for China is to reduce the rural and agricultural pollution to the East China Sea through demonstration of effective and innovative pollution reduction activities in Shanghai’s selected rural areas. Negative measures include: land of industrial park at town’s level impact on land, impact on rural society and daily life, impact on fertilizer and pesticides, and impact on crop. Mitigation measures include: a) qingpu water resource bureau will grant compensation to departments of local government or individuals; b) establishment of new socialist countryside is a major direction of economic construction development in the long term which should be persisted; c) improve utilization rate of productive fertilizer and pesticide, to upgrade agricultural green control technology and to reduce environment pollution by residues of fertilizer, pesticides, and agricultural organic wastes by means of promotion of agrotechnical measures from demonstration bases radiating outside; d) for the affected crops: it will be compensated in line with standard, including seasonal vegetable grown by villagers in Bei Wangbang and Luo Tianbang villages.

China-Jiangsu Wuxi Lake Tai Environment Project

Environmental management plan – livestock waste management in medium scale farm

The development objective of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Shanghai Agricultural and Non-Point Pollution Reduction Project is to reduce the rural and agricultural pollution to the East China Sea through demonstration of effective and innovative pollution reduction activities in Shanghai’s selected rural areas. Negative impacts include: rising dust; noise pollution; discarded soil and building refuse; living garbage; waste gas; air pollution; cultural relic; river course blocks; surface water environment; and solid waste. Mitigation measures include: 1) building materials such as sand and cement that produce rising dust easily should be put in proper place where there are wind-guard or retaining wall, put cement in storage, use dust cover when unload bulk cement; 2) choose low-noise machines and equipments. If the construction site is near residential quarters, should set up simple sound insulating board; 3) a certain amount of discarded soil and building refuse will be produced during the construction; 4) the vehicles that have bad combustion and emit waste gas heavily should be repaired before being used; 5) dust elimination measure must be taken in the workshop produced dust and the workers must have physical protection apparatus; and 6) prohibit that sewage and livestock waste discharge into epidemic prevention river.

Environmental management plan – Jiading town river-network wetland demonstration

The development objective of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Shanghai Agricultural and Non-Point Pollution Reduction Project is to reduce the rural and agricultural pollution to the East China Sea through demonstration of effective and innovative pollution reduction activities in Shanghai’s selected rural areas. Negative impacts include: rising dust; noise pollution; discarded soil and building refuse; living garbage; waste gas; air pollution; cultural relic; river course blocks; surface water environment; and solid waste. Mitigation measures include: 1) building materials such as sand and cement that produce rising dust easily should be put in proper place where there are wind-guard or retaining wall, put cement in storage, use dust cover when unload bulk cement; 2) choose low-noise machines and equipments. If the construction site is near residential quarters, should set up simple sound insulating board; 3) a certain amount of discarded soil and building refuse will be produced during the construction; 4) the vehicles that have bad combustion and emit waste gas heavily should be repaired before being used; 5) dust elimination measure must be taken in the workshop produced dust and the workers must have physical protection apparatus; and 6) prohibit that sewage and livestock waste discharge into epidemic prevention river.

Pest management plan

The development objective of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Shanghai Agricultural and Non-Point Pollution Reduction Project is to reduce the rural and agricultural pollution to the East China Sea through demonstration of effective and innovative pollution reduction activities in Shanghai’s selected rural areas. Negative impacts include: rising dust; noise pollution; discarded soil and building refuse; living garbage; waste gas; air pollution; cultural relic; river course blocks; surface water environment; and solid waste. Mitigation measures include: 1) building materials such as sand and cement that produce rising dust easily should be put in proper place where there are wind-guard or retaining wall, put cement in storage, use dust cover when unload bulk cement; 2) choose low-noise machines and equipments. If the construction site is near residential quarters, should set up simple sound insulating board; 3) a certain amount of discarded soil and building refuse will be produced during the construction; 4) the vehicles that have bad combustion and emit waste gas heavily should be repaired before being used; 5) dust elimination measure must be taken in the workshop produced dust and the workers must have physical protection apparatus; and 6) prohibit that sewage and livestock waste discharge into epidemic prevention river.

Environmental impact assessment report

The development objective of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Shanghai Agricultural and Non-Point Pollution Reduction Project is to reduce the rural and agricultural pollution to the East China Sea through demonstration of effective and innovative pollution reduction activities in Shanghai’s selected rural areas. Negative impacts include: rising dust; noise pollution; discarded soil and building refuse; living garbage; waste gas; air pollution; cultural relic; river course blocks; surface water environment; and solid waste. Mitigation measures include: 1) building materials such as sand and cement that produce rising dust easily should be put in proper place where there are wind-guard or retaining wall, put cement in storage, use dust cover when unload bulk cement; 2) choose low-noise machines and equipments. If the construction site is near residential quarters, should set up simple sound insulating board; 3) a certain amount of discarded soil and building refuse will be produced during the construction; 4) the vehicles that have bad combustion and emit waste gas heavily should be repaired before being used; 5) dust elimination measure must be taken in the workshop produced dust and the workers must have physical protection apparatus; and 6) prohibit that sewage and livestock waste discharge into epidemic prevention river.

Environmental management plan – livestock waste managmeent in large scale farm

The development objective of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Shanghai Agricultural and Non-Point Pollution Reduction Project is to reduce the rural and agricultural pollution to the East China Sea through demonstration of effective and innovative pollution reduction activities in Shanghai’s selected rural areas. Negative impacts include: rising dust; noise pollution; discarded soil and building refuse; living garbage; waste gas; air pollution; cultural relic; river course blocks; surface water environment; and solid waste. Mitigation measures include: 1) building materials such as sand and cement that produce rising dust easily should be put in proper place where there are wind-guard or retaining wall, put cement in storage, use dust cover when unload bulk cement; 2) choose low-noise machines and equipments. If the construction site is near residential quarters, should set up simple sound insulating board; 3) a certain amount of discarded soil and building refuse will be produced during the construction; 4) the vehicles that have bad combustion and emit waste gas heavily should be repaired before being used; 5) dust elimination measure must be taken in the workshop produced dust and the workers must have physical protection apparatus; and 6) prohibit that sewage and livestock waste discharge into epidemic prevention river.

Environmental management plan – livestock waste management in medium scale farm

The development objective of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Shanghai Agricultural and Non-Point Pollution Reduction Project is to reduce the rural and agricultural pollution to the East China Sea through demonstration of effective and innovative pollution reduction activities in Shanghai’s selected rural areas. Negative impacts include: rising dust; noise pollution; discarded soil and building refuse; living garbage; waste gas; air pollution; cultural relic; river course blocks; surface water environment; and solid waste. Mitigation measures include: 1) building materials such as sand and cement that produce rising dust easily should be put in proper place where there are wind-guard or retaining wall, put cement in storage, use dust cover when unload bulk cement; 2) choose low-noise machines and equipments. If the construction site is near residential quarters, should set up simple sound insulating board; 3) a certain amount of discarded soil and building refuse will be produced during the construction; 4) the vehicles that have bad combustion and emit waste gas heavily should be repaired before being used; 5) dust elimination measure must be taken in the workshop produced dust and the workers must have physical protection apparatus; and 6) prohibit that sewage and livestock waste discharge into epidemic prevention river.

Environmental management plan – integrated livestock agricultural waste management

The development objective of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Shanghai Agricultural and Non-Point Pollution Reduction Project is to reduce the rural and agricultural pollution to the East China Sea through demonstration of effective and innovative pollution reduction activities in Shanghai’s selected rural areas. Negative impacts include: rising dust; noise pollution; discarded soil and building refuse; living garbage; waste gas; air pollution; cultural relic; river course blocks; surface water environment; and solid waste. Mitigation measures include: 1) building materials such as sand and cement that produce rising dust easily should be put in proper place where there are wind-guard or retaining wall, put cement in storage, use dust cover when unload bulk cement; 2) choose low-noise machines and equipments. If the construction site is near residential quarters, should set up simple sound insulating board; 3) a certain amount of discarded soil and building refuse will be produced during the construction; 4) the vehicles that have bad combustion and emit waste gas heavily should be repaired before being used; 5) dust elimination measure must be taken in the workshop produced dust and the workers must have physical protection apparatus; and 6) prohibit that sewage and livestock waste discharge into epidemic prevention river.

Environmental management plan – Qingpu village wetland sewage treatment system

The development objective of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Shanghai Agricultural and Non-Point Pollution Reduction Project is to reduce the rural and agricultural pollution to the East China Sea through demonstration of effective and innovative pollution reduction activities in Shanghai’s selected rural areas. Negative impacts include: rising dust; noise pollution; discarded soil and building refuse; living garbage; waste gas; air pollution; cultural relic; river course blocks; surface water environment; and solid waste. Mitigation measures include: 1) building materials such as sand and cement that produce rising dust easily should be put in proper place where there are wind-guard or retaining wall, put cement in storage, use dust cover when unload bulk cement; 2) choose low-noise machines and equipments. If the construction site is near residential quarters, should set up simple sound insulating board; 3) a certain amount of discarded soil and building refuse will be produced during the construction; 4) the vehicles that have bad combustion and emit waste gas heavily should be repaired before being used; 5) dust elimination measure must be taken in the workshop produced dust and the workers must have physical protection apparatus; and 6) prohibit that sewage and livestock waste discharge into epidemic prevention river.

Environmental management plan – integrated agricultural pollution reduction techniques

The development objective of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Shanghai Agricultural and Non-Point Pollution Reduction Project is to reduce the rural and agricultural pollution to the East China Sea through demonstration of effective and innovative pollution reduction activities in Shanghai’s selected rural areas. Negative impacts include: rising dust; noise pollution; discarded soil and building refuse; living garbage; waste gas; air pollution; cultural relic; river course blocks; surface water environment; and solid waste. Mitigation measures include: 1) building materials such as sand and cement that produce rising dust easily should be put in proper place where there are wind-guard or retaining wall, put cement in storage, use dust cover when unload bulk cement; 2) choose low-noise machines and equipments. If the construction site is near residential quarters, should set up simple sound insulating board; 3)a certain amount of discarded soil and building refuse will be produced during the construction; 4) the vehicles that have bad combustion and emit waste gas heavily should be repaired before being used; 5) dust elimination measure must be taken in the workshop produced dust and the workers must have physical protection apparatus; and 6) prohibit that sewage and livestock waste discharge into epidemic prevention river.

Environmental management plan

The development objective of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Shanghai Agricultural and Non-Point Pollution Reduction Project is to reduce the rural and agricultural pollution to the East China Sea through demonstration of effective and innovative pollution reduction activities in Shanghai’s selected rural areas. Negative impacts include: rising dust; noise pollution; discarded soil and building refuse; living garbage; waste gas; air pollution; cultural relic; river course blocks; surface water environment; and solid waste. Mitigation measures include: 1) building materials such as sand and cement that produce rising dust easily should be put in proper place where there are wind-guard or retaining wall, put cement in storage, use dust cover when unload bulk cement; 2) choose low-noise machines and equipments. If the construction site is near residential quarters, should set up simple sound insulating board; 3) a certain amount of discarded soil and building refuse will be produced during the construction; 4) the vehicles that have bad combustion and emit waste gas heavily should be repaired before being used; 5) dust elimination measure must be taken in the workshop produced dust and the workers must have physical protection apparatus; and 6) prohibit that sewage and livestock waste discharge into epidemic prevention river.

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