In order to further strengthen the preventive role of environmental impact assessment at the source and continuously deepen the reform of environmental impact assessment, the Department of Ecology and Environment of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region recently issued the Administrative Measures for Graded Examination and Approval of Environmental Impact Assessment Documents for Construction Projects in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (Revised Edition 2025).
It is understood that the revision will fully integrate the national requirements with the local reality of Guangxi, highlighting the three characteristics of "being able to control", "being able to live" and "being able to catch up", so as to achieve a more compatible hierarchical management of EIA with grass-roots management capabilities and promote green, low-carbon and high-quality economic and social development.
Strengthen the examination and approval of environmental impact assessment of major projects to ensure that the management of environmental impact assessment is "manageable". The authority for environmental assessment and approval of "two high" projects, such as thermal power, iron and steel, non-ferrous metal smelting, petrochemical, coal chemical industry, cement, flat glass, and projects with significant ecological and environmental impacts, such as tailings reservoirs and hazardous waste disposal, shall be transferred to provincial ecological and environmental departments, and the control of ecological and environmental zoning shall be strictly implemented, and the blind development of "two high" projects shall be firmly curbed. Strictly abide by the bottom line of ecological environment.
Decentralize the examination and approval authority of projects with less environmental impact, and promote the "liberalization" of EIA management. The authority of environmental assessment and approval for projects with relatively small environmental impact and relatively controllable environmental risks will be delegated to municipal administrative approval departments, and the local processing of environmental assessment and approval will be promoted to support the accelerated construction of key projects such as infrastructure.
Ensure that the approval of environmental impact assessment is decentralized to the grass-roots level to "catch up". Municipal administrative examination and approval departments are required to authorize only part of the environmental impact report forms to county-level administrative examination and approval departments in principle, so as to avoid the problem of lax examination and approval of environmental impact assessment projects caused by weak technical force at the grass-roots level, and effectively guarantee the quality of environmental impact assessment while reducing the burden of environmental impact assessment and approval at the grass-roots level.
Next, the Department of Ecology and Environment of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region will continue to strengthen the follow-up guidance on the implementation of graded examination and approval of environmental impact assessment, so as to better serve the environmental impact assessment and ecological environment protection of construction projects in the whole region.
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