Article 16 The state adopts a key supervision and administration system to key enterprises in the high energy or water consuming industries such as steel, non-ferrous metal, coal, electric power, petroleum processing, chemical industry, building materials, building construction, paper-making, printing and dyeing.
The supervision and administration over the energy conservation of key energy consuming enterprises shall be conducted in accordance with the Energy Conservation Law of the People's Republic of China.
The measures for the supervision and administration of key water consuming entities shall be determined by the administrative department of circular economy development and other relevant departments under the State Council.

Article 17 The state shall set up a circular economy statistical system, strengthen the statistical management of resource consumption, comprehensive utilization and waste production, and publish the major statistical indicators to the public on a regular basis.
The standardization department under the State Council shall, together with the administrative department of circular economy development, the environmental protection department and other competent departments under the State Council, work out the standards for saving energy, saving water, saving materials and re-utilizing and recycling wastes and constantly perfect them.
The state shall set up a system of labeling the resource consumption level (such as energy efficiency) of products and constantly improve it.

Chapter III Reduction

Article 18 The administrative department of circular economy development under the State Council shall, together with the environmental protection department and other competent departments under the State Council, issue a catalogue of the encouraged, restricted and eliminated techniques, equipment, materials and products on a regular basis.
It is prohibited to produce, import or sell any equipment, material or product listed in the eliminated category, and it is also prohibited to use any technique, equipment or material listed in the eliminated category.

Article 19 Enterprises engaging in the design of products, equipment, products and packages shall, in accordance with the requirement of reducing the consumption of resources and the generation of wastes, give preference to the materials which are recyclable, dismountable, degradable, innocuous, harmless or slightly harmful or poisonous, and the compulsory requirements in the relevant state standards shall be satisfied.
For any electric apparatus or electronic product that may cause environmental pollution in the process of dismantling and disposal, it is prohibited to use any poisonous or harmful substance. The directory of poisonous and harmful substances prohibited from use in electric apparatus and electronic products shall be worked out by the administrative department of circular economy development under the State Council together with the environmental protection department and other competent departments under the State Council.
Enterprises shall abide by the product packaging standards in the design of product packages so as to avoid resource waste and environmental pollution resulting from excessive packaging.

Article 20 Industrial enterprises shall use advanced or applicable water-saving technologies, techniques and equipment, work out and implement water-saving plans, strengthen water-saving management and exercise control over the use of water in the whole process of production.
Industrial enterprises shall strengthen quantitative management of water use, be equipped with and use acceptable water measurement instrument, and set up a water consumption statistics system and a water use status analysis system.
Any newly built, rebuilt or enlarged construction project shall have water-saving facilities, which shall be planned, built and put into use simultaneously with the main body of the project.
The state encourages and supports the desalination and direct use of sea water in coastal areas so as to save fresh water resources.

Article 21 The state encourages enterprises to use highly efficient and oil-saving products.
Enterprises in such industries as electric power, oil processing, chemical industry, steel, non-ferrous metal and building materials must replace fuel oil with clean energy, e.g., clean coal, petroleum coke, natural gas, etc. within the scope and time limit prescribed by the state, and must stop using fuel generator sets and oil boilers that fail to satisfy the relevant state provisions.
Enterprises manufacturing combustion engines and motor vehicles shall, in accordance with the fuel economy standards of the state for combustion engines and motor vehicles, use oil-saving technologies to reduce the consumption of petroleum products.

Article 22 A mining enterprise shall make overall plans, work out reasonable mineral resource exploitation and utilization plans and take reasonable mining sequences, methods and milling techniques. The mining license issuing organ shall examine the mining recovery rate, impoverishment rate, milling recovery rate, water reutilization rate in mines, land re-reclamation rate and other indicators stated in the development and utilization plan submitted by an applicant, and, where any indicator fails to reach the prescribed standards, shall not issue a mining license to the applicant. The mining license issuing organ shall strengthen supervision and administration over the exploitation of mineral resources according to law.
A mining enterprise shall, at the same time of mining the major mineral resources, make comprehensive exploitation and reasonable utilization of the intergrown and associated ores which have industrial values, and take protection measures against the minerals which must be mined simultaneously but may not be used temporarily as well as the tailings which have useful components so as to prevent the loss of resources and damage to the ecological environment.

Article 23 Entities in architectural design and construction industry shall, according to the relevant state provisions and standards, use energy-saving, water-saving, land-saving and material-saving technologies and techniques as well as small, light and recyclable products for construction. Areas shall, where possible, make sufficient utilization of solar energy, geothermal energy, wind energy and other renewable energy resources.
The state encourages the use of innocuous and harmless solid wastes to produce building materials, the use of bulk cement and the use of ready-mixed concrete and ready-mixed mortar.
It is prohibited to damage or destroy arable land to bake bricks. It is prohibited to produce, sell or use clay bricks within the time limit or areas prescribed by the State Council or the people's government of a province, autonomous region or municipality directly under the Central Government.

Article 24 The people's governments at or above the county level and the agricultural departments and other competent departments thereunder shall promote the intensive use of land, encourage agricultural producers to take advanced water-saving, fertilizer-saving and pesticide-saving planting, cultivating and irrigating technologies, improve the energy efficiency of agricultural machinery and give priority to the development of ecological agriculture.
Areas short of water shall adjust the planting structure, give priority to the development of water-saving agriculture, make more efforts in storing and using rainwater, build and maintain water saving irrigation facilities so as to improve the water use efficiency and reduce the evaporation and loss of water.

Article 25 State organs and other organizations using funds from the public finance shall be frugal, put an end to extravagance, take the lead in using energy-saving, water-saving, land-saving, material-saving and environment-friendly products, equipment and facilities, and use office supplies in an economic way. The offices administrations under the State Council and the local people's governments at or above the county level shall, together with other relevant departments at the same level, work out energy use quotas and water use quotas for the state organs at the same level, and the public finance departments shall work out disbursement standards according to such quotas.
The people's governments and the owners or users of buildings in cities shall take measures to better maintain and manage buildings and prolong their life. For any building which meets the urban planning and the construction standards and is in the reasonable service life, a city people's government may not make a decision to dismantle it unless it does so for public interests.

Article 26 Enterprises in the catering, entertainment, hotel and other service industries shall use energy-saving, water-saving, material-saving and environment-friendly products and reduce or stop using energy-waste or contaminating products.
Enterprises in the catering, entertainment, hotel and other service industries which are established after this Law comes into effect shall use energy-saving, water-saving, material-saving and environment-friendly technologies, equipment and facilities.

(To be continued.)

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