BEIJING, Aug 24 Asia Pulse - China's State Environment Protection Administration will work out and improve laws, regulations and policies aimed to promote development of recyclable economy in the country's 11th Five-Year Plan period (2006-2010), under which enterprises which have failed to reach economy of scale and are causing serious pollution will be subject to compulsory elimination, according to Wang Jirong, vice-director of the administration.

According to Wang, the pending regulations and policies will put strict environmental access control on enterprises, particularly those in paper making, metal smelting, coking, printing and dyeing and building materials industries.

Accordingly, new projects that do not comply with the government's industrial policy and fail to meet pollution control targets according to the requirements of ecological industrial parks will no longer be approved, and the development of industries involving high energy consumption, high material consumption and high water consumption will be restricted.

Besides, environmental influence evaluation will be required for regional development, resource development and urban construction plans so as to ensure rational layout for economic development from the origin, he said.

Wang said his administration will also set discharge quotas for different regions and implement a pollutant discharge license system.