Anyang Environmental Pollution Prevention Office issues an document Inform of Implementing the Senior-grade Control, to take compulsory control over industries including steel, ferro-alloys, cement and coking in Anyang on their emission reduction, which will take effect from 0 am on.

22^nd March, 2017, and rescission will be informed another time.

Concerned companies are as follow:

1. Anyang Iron&Steel Group Co.,Ltd: No.1 sintering machine keeps working, No.3 sintering machine can work from 4am to 24pm while No.2 sintering machine stops.

2. Angang Group Yongtong Ductile Cast Iron Pipe co., Ltd. : One intering machine keeps woking while the other can work from 8am to 20pm.

3. Anyang Yuhe Yongtong Pelletizing Co.,Ltd: 30% output permitted

4.Henan Fengbao Special Steel Co.,Ltd: One sintering machine works

5. Henan Fengbao Pipes Co.,Ltd: 50% output permitted.

6. Linzhou Hexin Casting Co.,Ltd: One sintering machine works

7. Linzhou Heavy Machinery linzhou Steel Co.,Ltd: One sintering machine works

8. Heman Yaxin Steel Co.,Ltd: One sintering machine keeps working while the other works from 8am to 20pm.

9. Anyang Iron&steel Industry Co.,Ltd: 50% output permitted

10. Anyang Xinyuan Steel Co.,Ltd: One sintering machine works from 8am to 20pm.

11. Anyang Xinpu Steel Co.,Ltd: One sintering machine keeps working.

12. Sha Steel Yongxing Steel Group: One sintering machine keeps working.

13. Anyang Bosheng Steel Co.,Ltd: One sintering machine works from 8am to 20pm.

14. Anyang Huixin Steel Co.,Ltd: Halts production.

15. Henan Huifeng Pipes Co.,Ltd: 50% output permitted.

16. Anyang Boxin Bar Co.,Ltd: 50% output permitted.

This output limitation becomes the forth one in this month because of Environmental protection.

Since Anyang is the source of recent serious air pollution, as well as the city the pollution of which lasts the longest. According to the first quarter review team of the Environmental Protection Department, the pollution results from missing emergency measures in polluted conditions, serious illegal emission, fake online inspection data from these factories and misconduct and slow reaction of the government.

• [Editor:Licaixia]