The Xinghua Economic Development Zone in Taizhou city – in East China's Jiangsu province – has emphasized source governance and imposed strict limits on pollutant emission over the years.
This was part of the development zone's efforts to modernize its environmental governance capabilities, as well as to better control and prevent pollution.
An accountability mechanism and a team consisting of officials have been created to ensure the development of a network that will monitor pollutants in the zone.
According to a guideline document released by provincial authorities, such a network should be set up to monitor various pollution sources in a comprehensive, accurate, and timely manner across all related industrial parks.
The zone also cooperated with a specialized third-party institution to create a scientific and feasible plan that will help the zone to arrange monitoring spots, determine the monitoring range and pollution control indicators, as well as to set specific requirements for network construction.
To date, two standard gas stations, two water stations, two automatic monitoring stations for volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and 31 mini stations for air monitoring have been built and connected to grids throughout the zone.
With the support of cutting-edge devices and technologies, the data from these stations is stored, managed, and analyzed collectively. It is then transferred to a provincial pollutant emission limit platform in real time.