Main Responsibilities of the Bureau of City Appearance, Environment and Sanitation of GuangZhou Municipality:
1. Carrying out the policies, laws, rules and regulations by the central, provincial and municipal governments concerning environmental sanitation. Formulating and implementing relevant guidelines, rules and regulations in the light of local specific conditions.
2. Administering the environmental sanitation work of the districts and giving guidance to the relevant work of the country-level cities.
3. Formulating medium- and long-term programs and, making annual plans for environmental sanitation.
4. Formulating plans for the construction of large- and medium-sized environmental sanitation projects in downtown Guangzhou and making plans for annual fixed assets investment. Making arrangements to update the environmental sanitation facilities. Organizing technical staff for scientific research in this respect.
5. Making plans for the allocation of maintenance for the work of urban environmental sanitation. Taking care of the special fund and the state-owned assets for this particular purpose. Formulating regulations for collecting service charges and managing to carry them out upon approval.
6. Supervising the work of collecting, transporting and treating consumer waste. Administering the work of turning consumer waste into useful resources and making it harmless to the environment. Supervising the work of handling excrement, dead livestock, poultry and rotten meat.
7. Enforcing the environmental sanitation law of urban waters, and meting out penalties to those violating relevant rules and regulations.
8. Supervising the discharging and stacking of sludge, the transportation of bulk materials, the face-lifting and cleaning of transportation vehicles.
9. Administering the environmental sanitation of the urban building elevations, rooftops and public facilities.
10. Examining and approving the cross-district outdoor publicity materials such as streamers, banners. Examining and verifying the designing of outdoor billboards larger than 50 square meters. Managing and supervising the posting of outdoor advertisements. Severely dealing with tattered outdoor advertisements, which may badly affect the general appearance of the city. Participating in designing and planning outdoor advertisements.
11. Keeping a watchful eye on the appearance of urban buildings, public facilities and public places. Taking the responsibility of guaranteeing to attain the required city appearance standard, of the work of inventing and manufacturing environmental sanitation machines, and of managing the tendering for sanitation projects.
12. Examining the work plan for the subsidiary sanitation projects in the City’s expansion and the old town’s renovation, and checking up the projects upon delivery. Meting out administrative penalties to those violating the sanitation facilities setup regulations.
13. Guiding the work of Environmental Sanitation Society. Promoting the consciousness of market, the socialization, specialization and industrialization of environmental sanitation service.
14. Enhancing the awareness of environmental sanitation; disseminating the legal and scientific knowledge in this respect; raising the citizens’ consciousness of environmental protection.
15. Undertaking other tasks entrusted by the municipal government and the higher authorities.
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