China Skin Capital: Arrange Production With Environmental Carrying Capacity

The water head town of Pingyang County in Zhejiang Province, known as "China skin capital", has been listed as one of the ten typical cases of environmental violations in the country due to heavy pollution in leather industry.

The water head changed his mind and invested 143 million 500 thousand yuan to carry out rectification. The production capacity was improved according to the carrying capacity of the environment.

Shui tou town is China's largest market for raw skins, pigskin distributing centers and processing areas. The leather industry once had an annual output value of nearly 4 billion.

However, the leather industry has brought huge economic benefits, but also brought serious environmental pollution.

Before the tannery wastewater was discharged without treatment, the water quality of Ao River was far lower than that of inferior V class.

According to the briefing, the comprehensive stoppage and rectification of tannery enterprises in Shui tou began in November 15, 2006, and the concept of pollution control changed from "matching sewage treatment plants according to production capacity" to "environmental capacity overall production".

According to the authoritative department's calculation data, the total amount of tannery wastewater should be controlled below 17 thousand tons per day, and the main pollutant COD in the wastewater should be controlled at 250 mg / liter.

To this end, the water tanning enterprises from 1261 to eliminate, merger and reorganization to 39.

The core tool for leather processing, drum, was also reduced from more than 3300 to 469.

The total amount of tannery wastewater was reduced from 71 thousand and 500 tons / day to less than 17 thousand tons / day, with a reduction of 76%.

Chen Jingbao, deputy county magistrate of Pingyang County, likened this regulation to "shock therapy". Pingyang's fiscal year has a static loss of 150 million, which has increased the industrial added value by more than 15 percentage points.

But at the same time, Chen Jingbao thought that pollution control also brought the industrial upgrading of the water head. Now the industrial chain of tanning industry has been extended. Many of the original tanning enterprises have switched to the production of belts, pet appliances and gelatin. The output value of leather products has reached 1 billion 120 million yuan from 1 to August this year, and many products have been exported overseas.