The
day before, the twelfth Guizhou Provincial People's Congress Standing Committee
of the thirty-second meeting of the "Guizhou Province Water Pollution
Control Regulations" (hereinafter referred to as the
"Regulations" "). The regulations will formally come into force
since February 1, 2018. In the course of the publication of the regulations, RIEL
Director, Prof. Qin Tianbao and his team, provided important legislative
support. This is also a landmark achievement that RIEL have made to play the
function of the think tank and serve the state and the local environment by the
rule of law.
Through the way of public bidding, Guizhou has entrusted the winning party, the team led by Prof. Qin Tianbao, to undertake legislative research, text drafting, regulation revision and so on. After receiving the task, Prof. Qin Tianbao's team actively cooperated with the work of the Guizhou provincial Environmental Protection Office, and traveled to Guizhou many times to participate in field research, and listened widely to relevant functional departments, enterprises and institutions, environmental protection social organizations and legal persons' opinions or suggestions. On this basis, the team of Prof. Qin Tianbao drafted the draft of the regulations on the prevention and control of water pollution in Guizhou and the draft of its legislative instructions. After that, the team took part in the revision of the regulations of the provincial government's Legislative Affairs Office, and part work of considerations of the Guizhou Provincial People's Congress on the draft regulations.