Officials held to account over pollution efforts
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CHINA has called more than 1,500 government officials to account for recent major environmental problems across three provinces, after inspections found insufficient implementation of pollution control efforts.
The Ministry of Environmental Protection said it had received feedback from inspection teams sent to Heilongjiang, Henan and Jiangsu provinces, the first group among eight regions the government plans to check.
The country has stepped up its efforts to crack down on pollution as public anger grows over smog levels and environmental degradation and the ministry has in the past year punished numerous factories and polluting industries.
In a separate notice, the ministry said air quality in the country’s smog-hit northern regions worsened in October.
Central China’s Henan Province, which faces serious air pollution and an increase of pollutants in some rivers, has held 1,231 people accountable, while Jiangsu in east China ordered more than 2,700 firms to improve pollution control after finding issues such as poor waste treatment at some chemical plants.
Slack pollution control monitoring and illegal construction in nature reserves was also found in Heilongjiang Province in the northeast, the ministry said.
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