Legal basis: Article 83 of the Law on the Prevention and Control of Water Pollution in People's Republic of China (PRC) violates the provisions of this law and commits any of the following acts, the competent environmental protection department of the people's government at or above the county level shall order it to make corrections or stop production and rectify, and impose a fine of not less than 100,000 yuan but not more than 1 million yuan; If the circumstances are serious, it shall be reported to the people's government with the power of examination and approval and ordered to suspend business or close down: (1) discharging water pollutants without obtaining a sewage discharge permit according to law; (two) the discharge of water pollutants that exceed the discharge standards of water pollutants or exceed the total discharge control indicators of key water pollutants; (3) using seepage wells, pits, cracks and caves to discharge water pollutants, setting concealed pipes privately, tampering with or forging monitoring data, or not operating water pollution prevention facilities normally to escape supervision; (four) failing to carry out pretreatment in accordance with the provisions, and discharging industrial wastewater that does not meet the requirements of the treatment process to the centralized sewage treatment facilities.
Article 63 of People's Republic of China (PRC) Environmental Protection Law If an enterprise, institution or other producer or operator commits one of the following acts, which does not constitute a crime, the competent department of environmental protection of the people's government at or above the county level or other relevant departments shall transfer the case to the public security organ, and the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be detained for more than 10 days and less than 15 days; If the circumstances are relatively minor, they shall be detained for not less than five days but not more than ten days: (1) The construction project fails to conduct environmental impact assessment according to law and is ordered to stop construction and refuses to implement it; (two) in violation of the law, without obtaining a sewage permit, was ordered to stop sewage, refused to implement; (three) illegal discharge of pollutants by means of concealed pipes, seepage wells, seepage pits, perfusion or tampering with or forging monitoring data, or the pollution prevention and control facilities are not operating normally to escape supervision; (four) the production and use of pesticides prohibited by the state, after being ordered to correct, refused to correct.