Radio Free Asia reported on October 12, 2017, that the CCP CC and China's State Council had jointly issued a document on September 20, that devised an “environmental and resource capacity” alert system to measure “overloading” in at-risk regions. Xinhua said the colour-coded alert scheme divides regional environments into three categories, those with “overloading, near overloading and not overloading.” Regions facing capacity overloading would be given a red or orange alert, while those close to capacity would be warned with a yellow or blue alert. A green rating will be reserved for regions “without excessive pollution and resource loss.”In the worst case of a red-alert area, authorities would deny approvals for “relevant projects.” Xinhua added that polluting enterprises will face penalties including fines, production restrictions and shutdowns.