Environmental impact of China''s village and township industry(1988-1992): a comparison with urban industry

This paper starts by a comparitive study of economic-pollutional coefficients between China's village and township industry(VTI) and urban industry, and pointed out that they share a common pattern of pollution discharge growth. An computable method was then proposed for estimating VTI's pollution discharges of the objective year, based on the base-year pollution data, the production growth factor, the abating-pollution-techni que-progress factor. The estimates of VTI's pollution discharges for year 1992 were worked out according to three scenarioes of selecting abating-pollution -technique- progress factor, and the acceptability of results were analyzed and identified. Finally, the VTI's importance for China's environmental management were interpreted in terms of the conservative estimate of VTI's pollution discharges.