The Municipal Government issued a document (HUFUFA File No. 41 [2007]) formally approved the implementation of “The Eleventh Five-Year Plan for Environmental Protection and Ecological Improvement in Shanghai” on 12 December 2007.? To basically establish the framework of ecological city by 2010 and to welcome the opening of the World Expo with a good environmental quality, the Planning clearly formulated the goal of environmental protection in Shanghai during the period of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan as follows:

• A generally perfect environmental infrastructure is established and a master pattern of environmental protection for the whole city is formed to make the city develop more harmoniously.
• Environmental pollution is effectively tackled and controlled, the total discharge of pollutants is reduced by a big margin, and the city environment is safer.
• The system of environmental monitorship and management is optimized, the ability to enforce the law to supervise environmental protection is improved, and the city is administrated more scientifically.
• Environmental quality improves continuously and steadily, both ecological environment and dwelling environment are healthy and comfortable, and living in the city is better.

Targets of Environmental Protection to
Be Attained in Shanghai in 2010

Serial Number	Item	Unit	Target for 2010	Attribute
1	Rate of good ambient air quality	%	Above 85%	Expectancy
2	Rate of standard-met water quality at the drinking water sources	%	Above 90%	Expectancy
3	Rate of second-class biochemical treatment of sewage in urban areas	%	Above 80%	Compulsory
4	Rate of centralized treatment of sewage in industrial zones	%	Above 95%	Compulsory
5	Rate of innocuous disposal of household refuse	%	Above 80%	Compulsory
6	Rate of stable standard-met discharge of major pollutants by industrial enterprises emphatically supervised for environmental protection	%	Above 95%	Compulsory
7	Rate of regular test of motor vehicle for environmental protection	%	Above 80%	Expectancy
8	Making “Flying-Dust-Controlled District” in certain districts and making “Smoke-And-Dust Controlled District” in the suburbs			Expectancy
9	Controlled total chemical demands of oxygen	10,000-ton	25.9	Compulsory
10	Controlled total discharge of SO2	10,000-ton	38	Compulsory
11	Rate of decrease of water consumption per ten-thousand-yuan total output value	%	16%	Expectancy
12	Rate of financial allocation for environmental protection in total output value of the city	%	3%	Expectancy

    As the project of “Research on Building Shanghai into a National Model City of Environmental Protection” had been authorized, a draft of “The plan of Building Shanghai into a National Model City of Environmental Protection” was been drawn up.? The preparatory work on the fourth round Three-year Action Programme of Environmental Protection has also been initiated.