Abstract:Remediation target of contaminated site is crucial to soil remediation project, but remains as a challenge. ‘Technical Guidelines for Risk Assessment of Contaminated Sites (HJ25.3—2014)’ was officially issued by Ministry of Ecology and Environment, however, other environmental quality standards for soil amendment are not abolished or still valid, such as the ‘Soil Environmental Quality Standards (GB15618—1995)’ and‘Standard of Soil Quality Assessment for Exhibition Sites (HJ350—2007)’, etc., resulting in confusion and inconsistency in determining the remediation targets, which has triggered lots of problems in soil remediation. In this paper, based on the survey of a chemical plant in Chongqing, remediation targets are determined and compared by risk assessment model and environmental standards, respectively. Results indicated that for both evaluation systems the most dominant soil pollutant was benzo-(a)-pyrene, but the remediation targets varied significantly, which was 0.041mg/kg for risk assessment model and 0.3 mg/kg for environmental quality standards. Therefore, it is urgent tor revise and issue current soil environmental quality standards to match the soil risk assessment models.