World Bank Loaned Capacity Building Project on Nine Larger Plateau Lakes’ Water Quality Monitoring System and Information Manipulation and Transmission System, proposed by YEPB in 2000 with a loan of about 2.38 million USD. 1/4 GDP of the whole province has been created from the lakes’ basins, of which the restoration has been, since the early 1990’s, considered as main task and priority of environmental protection work of Yunnan Province.

　　A. The project involves Kunming Municipality, Yuxi City, Dali Prefecture, Lijiang Prefecture and Honghe Prefecture, which are located in the basins of Nine Larger Plateau Lakes. With supply of sophisticated equipment and devices and related training for staffs, the project enabled above stations to provide systematic, updated, reliable and typical data , which are the basis and foundation for planning and decision-making by the governments at all levels, for decision-making of concerning government agencies timely and accurately on integrated restoration.

　　B. The project design unpredictedly consisted with the targets of 10th 5-Year (2001-2005) Plan on Environmental Monitoring of Yunnan Province. And following significant influences were achieved after the project:

　　1). water quality monitoring scopes greatly enlarged, covering not only water body itself in the past but also its sediments and aquatic creatures, the surroundings including soil, organisms, rainfalls and biological environment, and even the inflows and major pollution sources;

　　2). The Monitoring factors were greatly increased, at least 60 inorganic factors and more than 100 poisonous organic pollutants, and biological factors’ including phytoplankton, zooplankton, chlorophyll A, etc., be covered, a sharp leap compare with less than 30 ordinary and routine factors monitored in the past 10 years and above;

　　3). The Monitoring Frequency greatly enhanced. Thus, monitoring frequency and sampling sites will be increased that are required by deeper environment management. The past situation of annual 3 periods and 6 times routine monitoring, which were taken in dry, wet and average water seasons and 2 times in each season, will be totally changed.

　　4). The effectiveness, accuracy of monitoring data can be enhanced greatly with the improvement of monitoring measures and its data transmission system, and data processing.

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