Notice of the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment on Issuing the Measures of Shanghai Municipality for Rewards for Reporting Ecological and Environmental Violations

Date of issue:[2026-05-12]

沪环规〔2026〕3号

All relevant entities:

  To encourage public participation in ecological and environmental protection and strengthen social supervision, our bureau has formulated the Measures of Shanghai Municipality for Rewards for Reporting Ecological and Environmental Violations, which are hereby issued to you for compliance and implementation.

  Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment

  May 11, 2026

Measures of Shanghai Municipality for Rewards for Reporting Ecological and Environmental Violations

Chapter I General Provisions

  Article 1 These Measures are formulated to encourage public participation in ecological and environmental protection, strengthen social supervision, investigate and punish ecological and environmental violations in accordance with the law, safeguard the public's environmental rights and interests, continuously improve the ecological and environmental quality of this municipality, and in accordance with relevant laws, regulations, and policy provisions on reporting rewards, and in light of the actual ecological and environmental protection work of this municipality.

  Article 2 These Measures apply to the reporting, verification, and rewarding of ecological and environmental violations that occur within the administrative area of this municipality and fall within the scope specified in these Measures.

  Article 3 The municipal ecology and environment department is responsible for the unified guidance, coordination, and supervision of rewards for reporting ecological and environmental violations throughout the municipality. The investigation and handling department is responsible for case investigation, fact determination, and reward recommendations for rewarded reports within its administrative area.

Chapter II Reporting and Acceptance

  Article 4 Reporters may report ecological and environmental violations to ecology and environment departments through the following methods:

  (I) Telephone reporting: Shanghai 12345 Citizen Service Hotline;

  (II) Online reporting: official website of the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment (Government Affairs Disclosure - Government-Citizen Interaction - Consultation and Complaints);

  (III) WeChat reporting: the official account of the “National Ecological and Environmental Complaint and Reporting Platform”;

  (IV) Reporting by mail: No. 100, Dagu Road, Shanghai, addressed to the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment, postal code: 200003;

  (V) Other channels: other reporting channels published by ecology and environment departments.

  Article 5 The scope of rewarded reporting includes:

  (I) Where a pollutant-discharging entity discharges sewage through a rainwater outfall, or transports production wastewater off-site for treatment;

  (II) Where non-road mobile machinery with non-compliant emissions is used, where required emission control systems are not installed or replaced, or where high-emission non-road mobile machinery is used in prohibited areas;

  (III) Where, without permission or filing by the ecology and environment department, business activities involving the production, sale, use, import and export, recovery, recycling, or destruction of ozone-depleting substances are carried out;

  (IV) Where emergency pools are not installed in accordance with the requirements of relevant laws, regulations, standards, technical specifications, etc., or where polluted rainwater, firefighting water, leaks, etc. cannot enter emergency pools by gravity flow, pumping, or other means, posing major ecological and environmental accident hazards;

  (V) Where sewage outfalls are set up in drinking water source protection areas, or where new sewage outfalls are set up in waters of special economic and cultural value such as water bodies in nature reserves, ecological protection redline areas, or other areas requiring special protection;

  (VI) Where key greenhouse gas emitting entities included in the national carbon emission trading market fail to calculate greenhouse gas emissions in accordance with regulations, commit fraud in the preparation of annual emission reports, or commit fraudulent acts such as failing to prepare and submit samples for testing in accordance with regulations;

  (VII) Where a construction land plot fails to meet the risk control and remediation objectives determined in a soil pollution risk assessment report, or where soil pollution status investigation and soil pollution risk assessment, risk control, remediation, evaluation of risk control effectiveness, or evaluation of remediation effectiveness are not carried out in accordance with regulations, and construction projects unrelated to risk control or remediation are commenced;

  (VIII) Where new chemical substances are produced or imported not in accordance with the requirements of the environmental management registration certificate for new chemical substances. Producing or importing new chemical substances without a registration certificate, or using new chemical substances without a registration certificate to produce products; or producing or importing chemical substances on the list, or using chemical substances on the list to produce products, not in accordance with environmental risk control measures for key controlled new pollutants;

  (IX) Where industrial enterprises discharge pollutants in excess of pollutant discharge standards or in excess of total discharge control indicators for key pollutants;

  (X) Where radioactive isotopes, radiation devices, and radioactive waste generated by them are illegally produced, sold, used, transferred, imported or exported, stored, or disposed of;

  (XI) Where a construction entity, without submitting ecological and environmental impact assessment documents for approval in accordance with the law, or without resubmitting them for approval or requesting re-examination as required, commences construction without approval of the ecological and environmental impact assessment documents or without consent after re-examination;

  (XII) Where ecological and environmental protection facilities are not designed, constructed, and put into operation simultaneously with the main project, or where ecological and environmental protection facilities have not been completed or have not met specified requirements before being put into production or use;

  (XIII) Where pollutants are discharged without obtaining a pollutant discharge permit in accordance with the law, or where pollutants are discharged not in accordance with the types of pollutant discharges specified in the pollutant discharge permit, or in excess of the permitted discharge concentrations, permitted discharge amounts, or permitted discharge limits specified therein;

  (XIV) Where, due to an accident or other emergency, an incident causing or potentially causing environmental pollution or ecological damage occurs, and timely notification or reporting is not made, effective measures are not taken immediately or escape occurs, or necessary response measures are not taken, resulting in the expansion of harm from ecological disasters;

  (XV) Where motor vehicle or non-road mobile machinery emission inspections are passed by fraudulent means, or their emission control systems are damaged, dismantled, tampered with, shielded, or falsified; or where devices capable of tampering with, shielding, or falsifying emission inspection data for motor vehicles, non-road mobile machinery, or engines are produced, imported, or sold, or inspection equipment is provided to facilitate false emission inspections;

  (XVI)Where general industrial solid waste, hazardous waste, construction waste, scrapped motor vehicles, waste electrical and electronic products, retired new energy equipment, retired traction batteries, and other waste equipment and consumer goods are illegally transferred, dumped, or disposed of;

  (XVII) Where pollutants are discharged by means of evading supervision, such as through concealed pipes, seepage wells, seepage pits, injection, cracks, tampering with or falsifying monitoring data, temporary shutdown for the purpose of avoiding on-site inspection, opening emergency discharge channels in non-emergency situations, or abnormal operation of pollution prevention and control facilities;

  (XVIII) Where technical service institutions, in ecological and environmental service activities, fail to use facilities and equipment that comply with laws, administrative regulations, and national standards, or fail to comply with relevant technical specifications resulting in inaccurate data, or commit fraud or issue false reports in ecological and environmental service activities;

  (XIX) Other circumstances for rewarded reporting as provided for by ecological and environmental laws, regulations, and rules.

  Article 6 Rewards may be granted where the reported matters are verified to be true and meet the following conditions:

  (I) The reported content clearly identifies the subject reported and the ecological and environmental violation, and provides the reporter's true identity information and valid contact information;

  (II) The reported matter violates laws, regulations, or rules on ecological and environmental protection and falls within the jurisdiction of the ecology and environment department of this municipality;

  (III) The reported information has not exceeded the statutory limitation period for pursuing ecological and environmental violations, and the same reported information has not received rewards from other departments.

  Article 7 No reward shall be granted under any of the following circumstances:

  (I) The reporter intentionally commits ecological and environmental violations, fabricates false reporting materials, or extorts the person or entity reported;

  (II) The reporter is a staff member or auxiliary staff member of an ecology and environment department, or a close relative thereof, or the aforementioned personnel intentionally disclose clues to the reporter;

  (III) The reporter is a news media organization or a practitioner thereof;

  (IV) The reporter expressly refuses to accept the reward;

  (V) The clues or evidence provided by the reporter have already been known to the ecology and environment department or exposed by the media;

  (VI) The ecology and environment department has already filed, investigated, or handled the case before the reporter's report;

  (VII) Other reward circumstances that do not comply with laws, regulations, or rules.

Chapter III Investigation, Handling, and Reward Procedures

  Article 8 After receiving a report, the ecology and environment department shall promptly verify it and collect relevant evidence in accordance with the law. Verified violations shall be handled in accordance with the law. Where a crime is suspected, the case shall be transferred to the public security organ in accordance with the law.

  Article 9 The reward standards for reports are as follows:

  (I) Where the case complies with Article 5 of these Measures, and after investigation the violation or harmful consequences are found to be minor and the ecology and environment department makes a decision not to impose a penalty, the reporter shall be granted a reward of 300 yuan;

  (II) Where the case complies with Items 1, 2, 3, or 19 of Article 5 of these Measures and the ecology and environment department makes an administrative penalty decision, the reporter shall be granted a reward of 500 yuan;

  (III) Where the case complies with Item 4 of Article 5 of these Measures and is verified as true by the ecology and environment department, the reporter shall be granted a reward of 1000 yuan;

  (IV) Where the case complies with Items 5 to 14 of Article 5 of these Measures and the ecology and environment department makes an administrative penalty decision, the reporter shall be granted a reward of 3000 yuan;

  (V) Where the case complies with Items 15 to 18 of Article 5 of these Measures and the ecology and environment department makes an administrative penalty decision, the reporter shall be granted a reward of 5000 yuan;

  (VI) Where the reporter is an incumbent employee of the reported enterprise at the time of reporting, the reporter shall be granted an additional reward of 10,000 yuan;

  (VII) Where the reported clues are verified by the ecology and environment department and transferred to the public security organ, and the public security organ files a criminal case, the reporter shall be granted an additional reward of 30,000 yuan;

  (VIII) The cumulative total amount of all rewards obtained from a single report under the preceding paragraph shall not exceed 100,000 yuan;

  (IX) Where a report makes a major contribution to preventing the occurrence of a particularly serious ecological and environmental violation, eliminating a particularly major ecological and environmental safety hazard, or assisting in the investigation of a particularly serious ecological and environmental violation or criminal case, the reporter may be granted a one-time reward of up to 500,000 yuan.

  Article 10 Where the same violation is reported by multiple persons or multiple times, only the first reporter shall be rewarded according to the chronological order of reporting. In the case of a joint report, the reward shall be distributed equally. After the same violation has been investigated, handled, and closed, if ecological and environmental violations listed in Article 5 of these Measures occur again and the reporter continues to report them, the reporter may receive corresponding rewards in accordance with regulations.

  Article 11 For reports that are verified as true and meet reward conditions, the investigation and handling department shall, after making the relevant administrative decision in accordance with the law or receiving the case filing notice from the public security organ, promptly propose a reward recommendation and submit it to the municipal ecology and environment department for review. After approval by the municipal ecology and environment department, the reporter shall be notified to claim the reward.

  Article 12 The reporter shall, within 30 days from the date of receiving the reward notice, claim the reward with his or her identity document and bank account information. Internal reporters must also provide materials such as labor contracts, salary statements, or social insurance payment records to prove that they had a de facto labor relationship with the reported enterprise at the time of reporting. If the reporter fails to claim the reward within the prescribed period, or provides inaccurate information resulting in failure to receive the reward, the reward shall be deemed waived.

Chapter IV Supervision and Administration

  Article 13 Ecology and environment departments and their staff must keep reporters' information strictly confidential. Anyone who discloses reporters' information or retaliates against reporters shall be dealt with seriously in accordance with the law.

  The circumstances reported by reporters shall be truthful and objective, and reporters shall be responsible for the authenticity of their reported content. Where a reporter fabricates or distorts facts, maliciously makes false reports, forges reporting materials to fraudulently obtain or falsely claim rewards, or demands property from the reported entity, thereby seriously disrupting the order of rewarded reporting work, the reporter shall bear corresponding liability in accordance with the law.

  Article 14 These Measures shall come into force on June 5, 2026 and remain valid until June 4, 2031.