The 2018 Session of Nanjing People's Congress announced to specifically reduce coals and chemicals in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province in 2018, by shutting down 40 chemical enterprises. Meanwhile, an action will be taken to govern the chemical enterprises in the province this year.

The Catalogue for Classification & Administration of Pollutant Discharge Licensing for Stationary Pollution Sources (Version 2017) released in 2017 makes it clear that the pollutant discharge licenses should be issued to the pesticide technical manufacturers, manufacturers of pesticide intermediates mainly used for pesticide production and pesticide formulations processors in the pesticide manufacturing industry. The deadline is set in 2017, except that for biochemical pesticide and microbial pesticide manufacturers.

Recently, Zibo City in Shandong Province, published the Notice of Implementation Plan of Regulation on Industrial Enterprises Operating during Non-peak Period of Winter 2017, which targeted at key industries like steel, coking, pharmaceuticals and pesticides for four months (15 Nov., 2017-15 March, 2018).