(January 16, 2002) SEPA vice-director Pan Yue also named 10 metals, transportation and power projects under construction near rivers, areas of dense population and ecological protection zones as posing serious environmental dangers.

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Beijing: China on Tuesday named and shamed 11 companies, including large metals smelters, for heavy pollution from their factories. The companies targeted as having “serious problems”, including Baiyin Nonferrous Metals Co. and Xingtai Iron and Steel Co. Ltd., had to improve and clean up the offending projects or face closure orders and fines, the State Environmental Protection Administration said on its Web site, http://www.zhb.gov.cn. … [SEPA vice-director Pan Yue] also named 10 metals, transportation and power projects under construction or in trial operation near rivers, areas of dense population and ecological protection zones as posing serious environmental dangers. … The exposed factories and projects had to submit reform proposals within a month or face fines and orders to shut production or construction, the environmental protection administration said.

Reuters, January 16, 2002