(August 22, 2006) A senior Chinese official says pollution and industrial mismanagement are threatening water supplies in nearly 300 cities. The government is planning to spend $125 billion in the next five years to try to fix the problem.
China blames fraud and lax enforcement for pollution
(August 21, 2006) A government investigation into pollution-control approvals for construction projects worth more than US$12.5 million found violations in almost 40 per cent of cases, China’s senior environmental official says.
Jiangsu villagers have to draw water from disease-ridden river
(August 19, 2006) Having been deprived of running water for two months, 2,100 residents in Gaochun county in Jiangsu have been forced to get their supplies from a river ridden with the parasitic worm that can cause liver, gastrointestinal tract and bladder diseases.
Clean up Chinese industry
(July 20, 2006) A 27-year-old economic boom has left China’s waterways and coastlines polluted by industrial and farm chemicals and domestic sewage. ‘Having long failed to enforce its own environmental safeguards,’ China must now outsource for help.
Environmental safety fears over factories
(July 13, 2006) ‘If China does not take effective preventative measures, the occurrence of environmental incidents will be out of control,’ warns Pan Yue, vice-minister of the State Environmental Protection Administration.
Regulator: China’s plants pose risk
(January 30, 2001) Most of China’s chemical plants pose a ‘grave environmental risk’ because they are located too close to cities and rivers, the State Environmental Protection Administration warns.
Half of China’s chemical plants endanger environment
(July 11, 2006) China’s State Environmental Protection Administration says 45 per cent of the country’s chemical and petrochemical plants, most located along rivers and lakes or in densely populated areas, pose a major environmental risk.
Cleanup efforts slow toxic spill in China
(June 18, 2006) Chinese authorities said a toxic coal tar spill flowing down a northern river had slowed as they rushed to stop it from reaching a reservoir that serves a city of 10 million and is a standby source for the 2008 Olympics.
Clean-up under way to save river from coal tar
(June 17, 2006) Clean-up efforts were under way on Friday to control coal tar contamination in a river in North China’s Hebei province, which is endangering a reservoir supporting Baoding, a city with a population of more than 10 million.
Chinese rush to clean up coal-tar spill
(June 15, 2006) Crews armed with cotton, sponges, straw and activated carbon soaked up toxic coal tar from a northern Chinese river Thursday, hurrying to absorb the spill before it reaches a city of 10 million people.
Half China’s chemical plants pose grave risk
(July 12, 2006) Nearly half of China’s chemical plants pose "a severe environmental risk," according to a report released yesterday by the country’s environmental protection agency.
Pollution costs equal 10% of China’s GDP
(June 6, 2006) Projects will be cancelled if they cause overdevelopment of land resources or negatively affect the surrounding environment, said SEPA deputy director Zhu Guangyao.
Chongqing uses foreign funds to improve environment
(June 2, 2006) Southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality started two projects to improve its urban environment.
Now there’s only one place to go for environmental-accident info
(May 2, 2006) China’s General Administration of the Environment has issued a notice declaring that it alone will make public environmentally damaging accidents and related information.
Senior official stresses environmental protection
(March 21, 2006) China must make more efforts to improve its deteriorating environment, said the chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.
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