On March 13, the State Council's institutional reform programme was announced. According to the program, after the reform, the number of ministerial-level agencies in the State Council will be reduced by 8, and the number of vice-ministerial-level agencies will be reduced by 7. In addition to the General Office of the State Council, there will be 26 constituent departments in the State Council. Among them, in order to form the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, will no longer retain the Ministry of Environmental Protection.

  Review of the Ministry of Environmental Protection over the years.

  In October 1974, the State Council Leading Group for Environmental Protection was formally established.

  In May 1982, the State Construction Committee, the State General Administration of Urban Construction, the General Administration of Construction and Engineering, the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping and the Office of the State Council Leading Group for Environmental Protection were merged to form the Ministry of Urban and Rural Construction and Environmental Protection, with an Environmental Protection Bureau within the Ministry.

  In May 1984, the State Council Environmental Protection Committee was established.

  In December 1984, the Environmental Protection Bureau of the Ministry of Urban and Rural Construction and Environmental Protection was transformed into the State Environmental Protection Bureau.

  In July 1988, the environmental protection work was separated from the Ministry of Urban and Rural Construction and an independent State Environmental Protection Bureau was established (at vice-ministerial level), which was clearly defined as a functional department of the State Council for the comprehensive management of environmental protection, as an agency directly under the State Council, and as the subordinate agency of the State Council Environmental Protection Committee.

  In June 1998, the State Environmental Protection Bureau was upgraded to the State Environmental Protection Administration (at the level of a full ministry), which is a direct agency of the State Council in charge of environmental protection. The Environmental Protection Commission of the State Council was abolished.

  In July 2008, the State Environmental Protection Administration was upgraded to the Ministry of Environmental Protection and became a constituent department of the State Council.

  On March 13, 2018, on March 13, the State Council institutional reform program was announced, for the formation of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, which will no longer retain the Ministry of Environmental Protection.

  In fact, this is just an adjustment in the construction of China's ecological and environmental civilization, the newly formed Ministry of Ecology and Environment by the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Land and Resources, the Ministry of Water Resources, the Ministry of Agriculture, the State Oceanic Administration and the State Council South-to-North Water Diversion Project Construction Committee Office to integrate the formation of. 2018, Xizhimen South Small Street No. 115 courtyard (Ministry of Environmental Protection) will be hung with the brand of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment. So some people say that this is actually an "expansion" of the Ministry of Environmental Protection.

  The plastics industry has an "inseparable relationship" with the Ministry of Environmental Protection, as a key pollution concern, the plastics industry has been on the Ministry's list of governance.

  The Ministry of Environmental Protection has done those things to the plastics industry.

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  In 2005, the former Environmental Protection Administration, together with the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, issued the "Environmental Protection Control Standards for Imported Solid Waste as Raw Materials - Waste Plastics" to strengthen the management of imported waste plastics at source.

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  In 2011, the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the Ministry of Commerce, the National Development and Reform Commission, the General Administration of Customs and the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine jointly issued the Measures for the Administration of Solid Waste Imports regarding the management of solid waste imports.

  On October 1, 2012, the Regulations on the Administration of Pollution Prevention and Control in the Processing and Use of Waste Plastics were officially implemented.

  In 2013, the Ministry of Environmental Protection issued the Regulations on the Administration of Environmental Protection of Imported Waste Plastics.

  In 2015, the State Ministry of Environmental Protection promulgated and implemented the Emission Standards for Pollutants in the Synthetic Resin Industry, stipulating that the standards are also implemented in the synthetic resin products industry, where the control factors for air pollutants include total non-methane hydrocarbons, styrene, phenols, formaldehyde, etc.

  In 2017, the State Ministry of Environmental Protection promulgated and implemented the List of Environmental Impact Assessment Classification Management for Construction Projects.

  In July 2017, China formally notified the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and announced that from the end of 2017, China will no longer accept imports of waste plastics, waste paper, waste slag, waste textiles and waste slag.

  There are also regulations, standards, approaches and lists regarding the plastics industry such as the Regulations on Environmental Protection of Imported Waste PET Beverage Bottle Bricks and the Regulations on Environmental Protection of Imported Waste CD-ROM Crushed Material.

  This restructuring of the Ministry of Environmental Protection is actually another step forward and strengthening of our government's work on environmental protection, which will contribute to the unified management of natural resources, as well as the unified supervision of ecological and pollution emissions, and a more integrated and systematic development of the overall quality of the ecological environment schedule and roadmap. The new Ministry of Ecology and Environment will take over the burden of building environmental protection in China. Therefore, China's plastics industry needs to pay more attention to pollution prevention and management, accelerate the development of new technologies, new products and new programs, to the green plastics industry direction development forward.