BEIJING, June 4 (Xinhua) -- China's State Council, or cabinet, on Sunday issued the General Work Plan for Energy Conservation and Pollutant Discharge Reduction, urging governments and companies around the country to "earnestly" implement it.

    The plan lists targets to scrap out-dated production capacity for 2007, including:

    -- Electricity: small thermal power generating units with a combined capacity of up to 10 million kilowatts;

    -- Iron: furnaces smaller than 300 cubic meters with a combined smelting capacity of up to 30 million tons;

    -- Steel: small converters and electric furnaces each producing 200,000 tons or below a year, with a combined production capacity of 35 million tons;

    -- Electrolytic aluminum: small prebaking cells with a combined capacity of up to 100,000 tons;

    -- Iron alloy: low-shaft electric furnaces below 6,300 kilovolt-amperes with a combined production capacity of up to 1.2 million tons;

    -- Calcium carbide: electric furnaces below 6,300 kilovolt-amperes with a combined production capacity of up to 500,000 tons;

    -- Coke: small cokers with coke chambers with a height smaller than 4.3 meters, with a combined production capacity of up to 1 million tons;

    -- Glass: out-dated glass plating equipment with a combined capacity of up to 6 million weight boxes;

    -- Paper making: grass pulp production equipment with annual output below 34,000 tons, chemical pulp production lines with annual output below 17,000 tons, and paper mills with waste paper as raw materials and annual output below 10,000 tons that fail to reach set waste discharge standards, with a combined capacity of up to 2.3 million tons;

    -- Alcohol: enterprises with out-dated production techniques with annual output below 30,000 tons (except those using waste sugar and honey as raw materials), with a combined capacity of up to 400,000 tons;

    -- Monosodium glutamate: enterprises producing less than 30,000 tons annually, with a combined capacity of up to 50,000 tons;

    -- Citric acid: factories that fail to meet environmental protection standards with a total capacity of up to 20,000 tons.