Study On The Environmental Policy Of Priority Zone Planning In Anhui Province

The outline of the 11th Five-year Plan of China first and clearly stated that national land space should be divided into four priority zones:optimal development zone, key development zone, restricted development zone and prohibited development zone, to form a reasonable space exploitation structure. The report of the 17th People's Congress of the Communist Party of China further clarified that China would basically form the layout of priority zones by 2020.The priority zone is a space unit to determine one specific area as one specific main functional type based on the carrying capacity of environment, existing development density and development potential etc in different areas. Priority zone division should mainly considered the ecological conditions of nature, carrying capacity of soil and water resources, geographical features, environmental capacity, existing development density, economic structure characteristics, the status of population aggregation, level of participation in international division of labor and other factors. Since there are significant differences of environmental capacity, environmental characteristics, ecological functions in different regions of Anhui Province, the economic and social development are not the same in the different regions.Distributions of the priority zones of Anhui Province mainly are as follows: optimal development zone, located along at both sides of the HuaiHe River in AnHui section, cities in this zone are increasingly being polluted along with the high speed development of industrialization and urbanization; key development zone, located in Chaohu Economic Circle and Wanjiang Economic Development Zone, this region is the important zone of economic development in AnHui Province, with concentrated cities and towns, developed industries, and the pollution is relatively more serious; restricted development zone, seated in basic farmland protection area of Huaibei plain, water resources conservation and biodiversity protection area of the Dabie Mountain area, water and soil conservation and biodiversity protection area in southern Anhui mountainous area, flood store and regulation and biodiversity protection area of the Huayang lake group, important ecology function protection area of the Lake Chaohu basin upstream surface source contamination control, ecological environments of these region are extremely sensitive, are very important to maintain regional ecology service function; prohibited development zone, located in the scenic, natural and cultural heritage protection zone of Huangshan mountain and Jiuhua mountain, Tianma and Yaoluoping national nature protection area, the vegetation coverage of these regions is high, the ecological environment is superior, the ecosystem is well preserved.In the progress of promoting the formation of priority zones, according to the effectiveness of different regional policy, the regional differentiated environmental policies should be implemented. For the key development zone, implementing the strict pollutants discharging and environmental protection standards, strengthening environment impact assessment of regional planning, establishing and improving the permission system of environment access, environment elimination and pollutants discharging, greatly reducing pollutants discharging; for optimal development zone, implementing strict environment impact assessment system for construction projects, drawing up specific standards for pollutant discharging, making full use of the constraint and incentive functions of environmental protection policy, promoting the transformation of economic growth mode, achieving production increasing and pollution reducing; for restricted development zone, implementing more strict environment standards, restricting the irrational development mode by using the constraint function of environment policies, meanwhile, further improving such supporting policies as economic compensation policy and so on, assuring the recovery and conservation of ecological function; as for prohibited development zone, on the basis of strictly prohibiting environment pollutions, carrying out biodiversity assessment, establishing and perfecting the ecological compensation policy and relevant financial support system, enhancing the regional ecological environment quality.