Legislation Study Of Heavy Metal Pollution Prevention In China

Heavy metal industries, is the basic industry of the national economy construction, high energy consumption and heavy pollution industries. Into the21st century, China’s industrialization level progresses, the heavy metal industry has been booming. Technological and economic development, a great convenience for the human resources, the environment, ecology and human security, but also bring serious harm. Heavy metal pollution has become a new kind of pollution following the "industrial waste", it silently, a vast reservoir of virulence forces.At present, China’s heavy metals pollution hazard has been very severe, frequently appear on pollution abuses, in addition to local laws and regulations and relevant standards, our heavy metal pollution prevention legislation is still in the exploratory stage, the court in the trial of cases of heavy metal pollution, because the relevant laws regulations serious deficiencies, not be able to provide a reasonable and effective means of relief for the people, resulting in very hard to ensure the legitimate rights and interests of the victim’s visible, much still remains to be done in the prevention and treatment of heavy metal pollution. However, as early as in the sixties and seventies of the last century, the United States, Japan and other developed countries had developed a specialized heavy metal pollution prevention legislation, many developed countries and regions has long recognized the serious hazard of heavy metal pollution on the environment and human health the role of public opinion and official, the heavy metal pollution legislation has come out, and to some extent on the number of mature experience. In view of the serious hazard of heavy metal pollution on human society, the urgent need for heavy metal pollution legislation, local laws and regulations be modified Ordinance by the test of practice for the actual situation around, annulled or in law, better protection the legitimate rights and interests of citizens not to be violated. Environmental protection in China’s current heavy metal industry has made some achievements, but still there is a big gap between the heavy metal pollution legislation and pollution control levels compared with foreign. Therefore, under the heavy metal pollution hazards increasingly serious situation, must learn foreign experience in legislation, to perfect the existing legal system, and gradually establish a set of accord with China’s national conditions and effective heavy metal pollution prevention and control legislation system, develop a heavy metal, heavy metal pollution prevention and control of special law environment standards and related law and regulations is the top priority.This papers from the basic concept and classification of heavy metal pollution, combined with the characteristics of heavy metal pollution, the present situation, the source, harm, to generalize to problem of heavy metal pollution control legislation in our country and the reasons as the breakthrough point, analysis the necessity of heavy metal pollution prevention and control legislation in our country, and combining the domestic and foreign advanced legislation experience and enlightenment, put forward legislative proposals of prevention and enlightenment, put forward legislative, proposals for prevention and control of heavy metal pollution in our country, including the legislative purpose, legislative principle, legislative system, supervision system, legal system and legal liability of heavy metal pollution. Hope this thesis for heavy metal pollution prevention and control of the perfection of legal system as a meager force.