Legal basis: People's Republic of China (PRC) Air Pollution Prevention and Control Law.
Article 36 Local people's governments at various levels shall take measures to strengthen the management of civil loose coal, prohibit the sale of coal that does not meet the quality standards of civil loose coal, encourage residents to burn high-quality coal and clean briquette, and promote energy-saving and environment-friendly stoves.
Article 37 Oil refining enterprises shall produce fuel oil according to the quality standards of fuel oil.
It is forbidden to import, sell and burn petroleum coke that does not meet the quality standards.
Article 38 The people's government of a city may demarcate and publish a no-burn zone for highly polluting fuels, and gradually expand the scope of the no-burn zone for highly polluting fuels according to the requirements of improving the quality of the atmospheric environment. The catalogue of highly polluting fuels shall be determined by the competent department of ecological environment of the State Council.
In the no-burn zone, it is forbidden to sell and burn highly polluting fuels; It is forbidden to build or expand facilities burning highly polluting fuels. Those that have been built should switch to natural gas, shale gas, liquefied petroleum gas, electricity or other clean energy sources within the time limit prescribed by the city people's government.
Thirty-ninth urban construction should be overall planning, and cogeneration and central heating should be promoted in coal-fired heating areas. In the area covered by central heating pipe network, it is forbidden to build or expand decentralized coal-fired heating boilers; Built coal-fired heating boilers that do not meet the emission standards shall be dismantled within the time limit prescribed by the city people's government.
Fortieth the market supervision and management department of the people's government at or above the county level shall, jointly with the competent department of ecological environment, supervise and inspect the implementation of environmental protection standards or requirements in the production, import, sale and use of boilers; Those that do not meet the standards or requirements of environmental protection shall not be produced, imported, sold or used.
Article 41 Coal-fired power plants and other coal-fired units shall adopt cleaner production technology, build supporting devices such as dust removal, desulfurization and denitrification, or take other measures such as technological transformation to control the emission of atmospheric pollutants.
The state encourages coal-burning units to adopt advanced technologies and devices for coordinated control of air pollutants such as dust removal, desulfurization, denitrification and mercury removal, so as to reduce the emission of air pollutants.