Shanghai Environmental Protection Bureau has announced that in 2015 levels of chemical oxygen demand (COD), ammoniacal nitrogen, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide in Shanghai were down 25.1 percent, 18.4 percent, 33.1 percent and 32.1 percent compared to 2010 levels, respectively.
Shanghai Environmental Protection Bureau has stated in its Shanghai Environmental Protection and Ecological Construction report for China’s 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016-20), which will be submitted to Shanghai municipal government for approval, that it plans to primarily focus on industry transformation and upgrading, including strict environmental conditions, prohibition of high-pollution projects - for instance, prohibition of construction of new steel capacities, stronger supervision of enterprises, development of environmental protection industries, and cultivation of green low-carbon industries.