Measures for Cleaner Production Review.

For purposes of promoting cleaner production and regulating cleaner production review, these Measures are enacted in accordance with the Cleaner Production Promotion Law of the People's Republic of China. The Measures consist of 6 Chapters: General Provisions; Scope of Cleaner Production Review; Conduct of Cleaner Production Review; Organization and Management of Cleaner Production Review; Rewards and Penalties; Supplementary Provisions.
The term “cleaner production review” as mentioned in these Measures refers to the process of following certain procedures to investigate into and diagnose the production and service process so as to identify causes of high energy consumption, high material consumption, and heavy pollution and to propose solutions for reducing energy consumption, material consumption, and wastes as well as reducing the use and production of toxic or hazardous materials and recycling of wastes, and therefore to select and implement the technically, economically, and environmentally feasible cleaner production scheme. Cleaner production review may be divided into voluntary review and compulsory review. 　　 The State encourages enterprises to voluntarily conduct cleaner production review. Compulsory cleaner production review shall be conducted for enterprises as prescribed in Article 8 of these Measures.