Legal basis: Article 15 of the Environmental Protection Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), and the competent department of environmental protection of the State Council formulates national environmental quality standards. The people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government may formulate local environmental quality standards for projects not specified in the national environmental quality standards; For projects that have been stipulated in the national environmental quality standards, local environmental quality standards that are stricter than the national environmental quality standards can be formulated. Local environmental quality standards shall be reported to the competent department of environmental protection of the State Council for the record. The state encourages the development of environmental benchmark research.