State Council briefing on pollution sources, Greenpeace reax

SHOTLIST FILE: Datong, Shanxi Province - 3 December 2009 1. Truck driving in front of power station, tilt up to cooling towers and chimney 2. Wide of chimneys and cooling towers with people on bikes in foreground 3. Workers on dump truck sifting through coal 4. Conveyor belt and coal pile with exhaust in background 5. Pan of front loader dumping more coal in truck Beijing - 9 February 2010 6. Wide of government officials walking in to briefing 7. Wide of media 8. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Zhang Lijun, Vice Minister of Environmental Protection: "The total discharge of major pollutants across the country has been identified. The census, for the first time in China, incorporated agricultural sources and all domestic sources beyond county government jurisdiction, as well as leachate from refuse disposal facilities." 9. Cutaway of reporter 10. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Zhang Lijun, Vice Minister of Environmental Protection: "Because China''s path to economic development has been different from that taken by the developed nations - China may well pass the peak polluting levels and see marked improvement by the time our per capita income reaches the 3-thousand US dollar level." FILE: Beijing - 19 December 2009 11. People sifting through piles of plastic bottles, zoom out to wide 12. Tilt down of piles of plastic bottles being shredded by machine, workers shovelling plastic chips 13. Close-up of plastic chips Beijing - 9 February 2010 14. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Zhang Lijun, Vice Minister of Environmental Protection: "Vehicle emission contributed a large share to urban pollution, accounting for 30 percent of the total NOx (nitrogen oxide) emissions." 15. Wide of traffic on busy Beijing street 16. Tall building with smoke emissions behind it and a Chinese flag in front 17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ma Tianjie, Senior Campaigner, Greenpeace China: "Yes, this is definitely a big step forward because it''s the first attempt by the government to actually map out all those (m) millions of pollution sources - including agricultural sources. So it generates a very rich set of data which can be used to prioritise environmental policy in China and to better target the biggest polluters or the serious pollution problems." FILE: Shanxi Province - 18 August 2009 18. Wide of lead smelting factory with farmland in foreground 19. Wide pan of hospital room filled with children found to have lead poisoning from the factory 20. Mother sitting with sick child, zoom in to child on bed 21. Police walking by gate of lead smelting factory 22. Wide pan of large number of security guards outside factory 23. Various of villagers blocking road in protest against the factory STORYLINE China''s government on Tuesday announced that it had conducted its first national pollution census, mapping more than 5 (m) million sources of industrial, residential and agricultural waste throughout the country. Vice Minister of Environmental Protection Zhang Lijun told reporters in Beijing that the census, for the first time, "incorporated agricultural sources and all domestic sources beyond county government jurisdiction, as well as leachate from refuse disposal facilities." The survey marks the first attempt by China to obtain a comprehensive picture of the country''s pollution sources. Environmentalists like Greenpeace say it has far-reaching implications for China''s efforts to curb pollution emissions and prioritise environmental policies. Greenpeace campaigner Ma Tianjie heralded the census as "a big step forward." "It generates a very rich set of data which can be used to prioritise environmental policy in China and to better target the biggest polluters or the serious pollution problems," Ma said. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/25e9ce47cbd3baf4e958363b7eed5516 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork