From next year, VOCs will be completely discontinued from non-compliant enterprises.

Reporters from Langfang City Environmental Protection Bureau was informed that, in accordance with the "Langfang City 2016 Volatile Organics Management Implementation Program" requirements, in 2016 did not complete the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) compliance control tasks of enterprises, from January 1, 2017, all stop the discharge of pollutants.
According to a statistical analysis by the Hebei Provincial Environmental Protection Department, the average concentration of PM2.5 in China decreased by 17.1% YoY in January-September 2016, but the average ozone concentration did not decline or rise, up 7.8% YoY in 2015. Ozone became the primary pollutant in August, with Langfang's air quality ranking first among 74 key cities in the month. Ozone is the third most pollutant after PM2.5 and PM10. VOCs are important precursors of ozone formation, which have seriously affected the continuous improvement of regional air quality to the point of incurability. Provincial committees and provincial governments attach great importance to this, in a number of special meetings, provincial leaders have stressed the need to strengthen VOCs governance work, adhere to the problem-oriented, VOCs control as the focus of air pollution prevention and control work to promote.
On February 24 this year, the Industrial Enterprise Volatile Organic Emissions Control Standard (DB13/2322-2016) was issued and implemented in Hebei Province, requiring key industries such as pharmaceutical manufacturing, petroleum refining, petrochemicals, organic chemicals, coking, steel smelting and extension processing, wood processing, furniture manufacturing, transportation equipment manufacturing, surface coating and printing to implement the standards from January 1, 2017. Provincial and municipal supporting the introduction of a series of documents to support the smooth implementation of the standard, "Hebei Province key industries volatile organic matter standards control work programme" Langfang City 2016 volatile organic matter governance work implementation program" clear VOCs governance work objectives, governance priorities, main tasks, time progress and safeguards. Provincial Environmental Protection Department on October 18 held the province's key industries volatile organic matter compliance control work scheduling meeting, the meeting clearly requested that January 1, 2017 to close the non-governance, can not meet the emissions of VOCs enterprises, to provide legal support for the closure, requiring all regions to VOCs governance enterprises one by one issued a deadline for governance notice. The Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau has issued a deadline for the task of governance notice issued to the city and county level law enforcement departments.
Langfang City will be in accordance with the requirements of Hebei Province, Langfang City around the two aspects of the work: First, the implementation of enterprises active governance incentive policy, through the standard of governance acceptance of enterprises, according to the higher level of air pollution prevention and control funds allocation, governance completion time, take the "award replacement" approach, through the acceptance of enterprises to implement ladder awards. Second, in accordance with the requirements of the provincial departments, severely crack down on wait-and-see, non-compliant governance enterprises, January 1, 2017 to close the non-governance, can not meet the emissions of VOCs enterprises.