Regulations on the Protection of Radio and Television Facilities
Regulations on the Protection of Radio and Television Facilities
Regulations on the Protection of Radio and Television Facilities
Order of the State Council of the People's Republic of
November 5, 2000
The Regulation on the Protection of Radio and Television Facilities is hereby promulgated and shall come into force as of the day of promulgation.
Premier Zhu Rongji
Regulation on the Protection of Radio and Television Facilities
Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1 The present Regulation is formulated in order to safeguard the safety of radio and television facilities and guarantee the sound and high-quality broadcasting and reception of radio and television signals.
Article 2 The protection of the following facilities of a radio and television station/center (including cable radio and television station/center, hereinafter the same) as well as the transmission network for radio and television broadcasting as legally established within the territory of the People's Republic of China shall be governed by the present Regulation:
(1) The radio and television signal emission facilities, including antenna, feeder links, tower masts (poles), ground network, satellite transmitting antenna as well as the auxiliary equipments thereof;
(2) The exclusive transmission facilities of radio and television signals, including exclusive air transmission paths such as power cable lines, optical fiber cable lines (hereafter referred to in general as transmission lines), tower masts (poles), microwaves, etc., microwave stations, satellite ground receiving facilities, relay equipments as well as the auxiliary equipments thereof; and
(3) The radio and television signal monitoring facilities, including monitoring receiving antenna, feeder links, tower masts (poles) and direction-finding field intensity rooms as well as the auxiliary equipments thereof.
The protection and administration of the network facilities such as public telecommunication network as applied in the transmission of radio and television signals shall be implemented according to the relevant laws and administrative regulations.
Article 3 The people's government above the county level shall incorporate the planning and protection of radio and television facilities into its overall planning of urban and suburban construction and intensify the publicity and education of the protection of radio and television facilities.
The administrative department or organ in charge of the administration of radio and television of the people's government above the county level (hereinafter uniformly referred to as the administrative department of radio and television) shall take charge of the protection of radio and television facilities within its jurisdiction and take necessary measures to guarantee the safety of radio and television facilities.
Article 4 All entities and individuals shall be obliged to protect radio and television facilities.
It's prohibited for any entity or individual to embezzle, plunder, divide, intercept or destroy any radio and television facility.
Any entity or individual has the right to stop any act of endangering radio and television facilities and report it to the relevant department.
Chapter II Measures for Protection
Article 5 An administrative entity of radio and television facilities shall take charge of the maintenance of radio and television facilities so as to guarantee their normal operation.
An administrative entity of radio and television facilities shall set up protection signs around the radio and television facilities, which indicate the requirements of protection.
Article 6 The following acts that may endanger the safety of radio and television signal emission facilities or injure their functions are prohibited:
(1) Dismantling or breaking any antenna, feeder link, ground network or enclosing wall or encircling gear of the antenna area or any auxiliary equipment or mark thereof;
(2) Carrying out any construction within 250 meters around any medium-wave antenna or building any huge architecture of a height beyond an elevation angle of 3 degrees as calculated on the basis of a starting point of 250 meters beyond the antenna;
(3) Conducting any forestation or piling up any metal article within 500 meters in front of any short-wave antenna or carrying out any construction across overhead power lines or building any huge architecture of a height beyond an elevation angle of 3 degrees as calculated on the basis of a starting point of 500 meters beyond the antenna;
(4) Carrying out any construction within 1,000 meters in front of any directional antenna with a power of more than 300 kw or building any huge architecture of a height beyond an elevation angle of 3 degrees as calculated on the basis of a starting point of 1,000 meters beyond the antenna;
(5) Carrying out any construction within 3 meters on either side of any feeder link or planting any tree or any plant of a long-stalk variety within 5 meters on either side of any feeder link; or
(6) Quarrying sand, excavating earth, drilling, piling or dumping any corrosive substance within 5 meters around any antenna or tower mast (pole) or within any scope which may endanger the safety of the cat anchor.
Article 7 The following acts that may endanger the safety of exclusive radio and television signal transmission facilities or injure their functions are prohibited:
(1) Undertaking such operations as laying any major pipe of flammable or explosive liquid (gas), anchoring or pulling anchor, or quarrying sand within 5 meters on either side of any underneath transmission line or within 50 meters on either side of any indicated underwater transmission line;
(2) Moving or breaking any transmission line, terminal pole, tower mast (pole) or any auxiliary equipment or mark thereof;
(3) Planting any plant whose rootstock may twist any transmission line or dumping any corrosive substance within 1 meter around the ground where any transmission line is marked underneath;
(4) The distance between the peak of a tree and any overhead transmission line is less than
(5) Quarrying sand or excavating earth within 1 meter of a tower mast (pole) or stay wire of any transmission line, dumping any corrosive substance or piling any flammable or explosive article within 5 meters of a mast (pole) or stay wire of any transmission line; or
(6) Tying any livestock, hanging up any article or winding any crop to a tower mast (pole) or stay wire of any transmission line.
Article 8 The following acts that may endanger the safety of radio and television signal monitoring facilities or injure their functions are prohibited:
(1) Moving or breaking any monitoring receiving antenna, tower mast (pole) or any auxiliary equipment or mark thereof;
(2) Setting up any overhead power line, constructing any electromagnetic radioactive facility such as railway or highway or laying any metal component as in violation of the relevant state standards around any monitoring station/center;
(3) Planting any tree or any plant of a long-stalk variety or carrying out any excavation or construction that may have any impact on the land flatness within 150 meters of any direction-finding field intensity room of a monitoring station/center; or
(4) Carrying out any construction within 1,000 meters around any monitoring antenna or building any building or architecture beyond an elevation angle of 3 degrees as calculated on the basis of a starting point of 1,000 meters beyond the antenna or piling up any article beyond a prescribed ceiling height.
Article 9 The following acts that may endanger the safety of radio and television facilities or injure their functions shall be prohibited:
(1) Undertaking any blasting operation within 500 meters around any radio and television facility;
(2) Undertaking any field burning within 500 meters around any antenna, feeder link, transmission line or any tower mast (pole) or stay wire thereof;
(3) Carrying out any construction within 50 meters in front of any satellite antenna or building any building or architecture beyond an elevation angle of 5 degrees as calculated on the basis of a starting point of 50 meters in front of the antenna or piling up any article beyond a prescribed ceiling height.
(4) Building any facility that produces serious powder pollution, heavily corrosive chemical gas or radioactive substance within 1, 500 meters around any launching or monitoring station (center); or
(5) Building any flammable or explosive facility such as oil depot, oil filling station, liquefied gas station, gas station within 500 meters around any launching or monitoring station (center).
Article 10 The construction or expansion of any radio and television facility shall comply with the overall planning of urban and suburban construction.
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