In June 2018, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) announced China will expand environmental inspections to more cities and regions from June till April next year, as a part of a three-year anti-pollution plan. Two hundred teams with a total of some 18,000 inspectors and support staff started the inspection in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and Shanghai, and continued to Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces, and some 11 cities in Shanxi, Shaanxi and Shandong provinces. Many city governments have ordered partial or temporay shut down of facilities after the inspection.
According to a latest update from Shanghai Metals Market, the city government of Linyi, Shandong province, instructed local secondary aluminium producers to suspend or curtail production for about three weeks, starting from August 20.
The announcement came after the provincial environmental inspection team settled into the city. The Shandong government began a fresh round of environmental probes across the province last week. The Inspection team is settled in Binzhou city on Tuesday August 21 and will continue inspection for about 20 days throughout the province.
SMM informed that secondary aluminium producers in other Shandong cities have not received any such instructions.
In another update from the provincial environmental protection bureau, it is learned that six environmental inspection teams would settle across cities in Jiangsu province for about 10 days starting this week. Inspection teams will check rectification works for issues identified during the central government’s environmental reviews in June.
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