Implementation Plan for Prohibiting the Entry of Foreign Garbage and Advancing the Reform of the Solid Waste Import Administration System (No. 70 [2017], General Office of the State Council).

This Plan is developed according to the decisions and arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council as to the advancement of the building of ecological civilization and the reform of the ecological civilization system, in order to comprehensively forbid the entry of foreign garbage into the country, advance the reform of the solid waste import administration system, promote the harmless and recycling use of domestic solid waste, and protect eco-environmental safety and the health of the people.
Some local governments in China still have a mindset of valuing development and scorning environmental protection, and some enterprises make no scruple of taking a risk in pursuing illegal interests, the problem of the illegal entry of foreign garbage into the country is not eliminated despite being repeatedly prohibited, which is severely detrimental to the health of the people and China's eco-environmental security. To solve the problem, the Plan sets up the following main objectives: The import of solid waste shall be strictly administered, and by the end of 2017, the import of solid waste posing a grave danger to the environment and triggering strong response from the people will have been fully banned; and by the end of 2019, the import of solid waste which can be replaced by domestic resource will have been gradually ceased. The eco-environmental safety shall be ensured by constantly enhancing the supervision of the import, transportation and use of solid waste and all other links. The tough stance against foreign garbage smuggling shall be sustained to completely block the entry of foreign garbage. The conservation and intensive use of resources shall be enhanced, the level of harmless use and recycle of domestic solid waste shall be fully raised, and the domestic resource gap shall be gradually filled in, so as to provide powerful guarantee for the building of a beautiful China and the building of a moderately prosperous society in all aspects.