The report says that the present standards of fees on major pollutant discharges are comparably low, which can hardly to make up the costs on pollution control, and also not good to control and reduction of the pollutant discharges of enterprises.

   Such standards have made the enterprises bearing low costs on violation of relevant law and policies. This is not beneficial to bring into full play the initiative of enterprises in pollution control.

   At present, China ranks among the first in discharge of sulfuric dioxide in the world, and the discharge is mainly from thermal power plants, iron and steel, nonferrous, chemical and coking production. Acid rain has appeared in 50 percent of the cities.

   Statistics from the National Bureau of Statistics show that China's total discharge of sulfuric dioxide was 25.94 million tons in 2006, up 1.8 percent year on year.

   The report asks various environmental protection administration departments to be strict in fixing the discharge volume and collecting the discharge fees according to the state standards.