Environmental inspections to start soon in China’s 8 provinces

China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection has hinted that they will launch environmental protection inspections across the regions in China this year, according to news reported by Beijing News and published by Shanghai Metals Market.

The government will launch environmental inspections in eight provinces which include Shandong, Sichuan, Zhejiang, Jilin, Xinjiang, Tibet, Hainan and Qinghai. Ministry of Environmental Protection has not yet announced the date.

The provincial government has already started preparatory works. They expect the inspection to start in late July or early August.

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In April 24 this year, China government launched the third round of pollution control inspections in Tianjin, Shanxi, Liaoning, Anhui, Fujian, Hunan and Guizhou provinces, a move feared to strike the nation's secondary aluminium smelters with large carbon footprints. 

The investigations are taking a heavy toll on aluminium value chain since the environmental check started in China in April. Many producers have shut down production for corrections, affecting million tonnes of capacity.