Ministry of Environmental Protection: China will no longer use fluorescent lamps and mercury-containing batteries since 2021

Ministry of Environmental Protection announced on July 20 that the "Minamata Convention on Mercury" will enter into force on 16 August 2017, and since 2021, China will phase out the production of mercury-containing batteries and fluorescent products required by the Minamata Convention on Mercury And use, to 2032, to shut down all the original mercury mine mining.