Table 2 Brief summary of pollutants during four Five-Year Plan periods.

From: China industrial environmental database 1998–2015

 

Ninth Five-Year Plan (1998–2000)

Tenth Five-Year Plan (2001–2005)

Eleventh Five-Year Plan (2006–2010)

Twelfth Five-Year Plan (2011–2014)

Reported

Major pollutant

Reported

Major pollutant

Reported

Major pollutant

Reported

Major pollutant

COD

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

SO2

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

NH3-N

  

Yes

Yes

Yes

 

Yes

Yes

NOX

    

Yes

 

Yes

Yes

  1. Information of key pollutants are collected by authors from China’s Total Emission Control of Major Pollutants in each Five-Year Plan period.
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