Management of Agricultural Pollution in China: Current Status and International Experience

Nonpoint source pollution from agricultural and rural regions which are mainly from fertilization of cropland, excessive livestock and poultry breeding and undefined disposal of daily living wastes in rural areas is the leading source of water pollution in China, but they are ignored in management strategy and policy. And because that agricultural nonpoint source pollution will become one of the biggest challenges to the sustainable development of rural areas and to society as a whole. The system for agricultural nonpoint source pollution control in China should include an appropriate. According to international experience of protecting pollution, economical method might be a better path for decreasing the nonpoint source, for example, point-nonpoint trading program. This article further discusses the determinant factors and its rule of the trading ratio, especially the trading ratio's effectiveness under both condition of disregulation and regulation. So it is might be a good path in the future that Chinese authorities strength to process the economic path to control the nonpoint source and then obtain a sustainable development as a whole.