Table 1.

China’s related environmental protection laws in the 2000s.

Laws	Time of Promulgation
Law of the People’s Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution	29 April 2000
Law of the People’s Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Solid Waste Pollution	29 December 2004
Law of the People’s Republic of China on Grasslands	28 December 2002
People’s Republic of China water law	29 August 2002
Measures for the management of urban green line	9 September 2002
Regulations on the administration of the use of sewage charges	30 January 2002
Regulations on returning farmland to forests	6 December 2002
Clean Production Promotion Law of People’s Republic of China	29 June 2002
Standard for control of hazardous waste storage pollution	28 December 2001
Management method of water function area	30 May 2003
Measures for environmental management of new chemicals	1 April 2003
Interim Measures for administrative licensing of environmental protection	17 June 2004
Supervision and management measures for sewage discharge entrance into river	30 November 2004
Law of the People’s Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Water Pollution	28 February 2008
Measures for environmental administrative punishment	19 January 2010