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China will accelerate legislation and improve the enforcement of
the environmental laws to protect the environment, Xie Zhenhua,
director of the State Environmental Protection Administration, said
today at a press conference sponsored by the State Council Information
Office.
Xie Zhenhua said that during the ninth Five-Year Plan period (1996-2000),
great achievements have been made in the environmental protection.
The environmental condition has been improved and public awareness
of the environment has been strengthened to a great extent.
However, generally speaking, the way of the extensive economy development
and the predatory exploitation of the resources have not been changed
basically. The ecosystem deterioration is still existing and to
some extent is expanding and exacerbating in some areas.
The targets of environment protection in the 10th Five-Year Plan
are to make strenuous efforts in order to improve the situation
of environment; to slow down the degradation trend of the ecology;
to improve the environmental quality in key cities and regions and
to accelerate legislation and policy making in this regard as well
as management system of environmental protection adaptive to socialist
market economy.
Zhu Guangyao, vice-director of the State Environmental Protection
Administration, says that we have done a lot of work on eco-construction
and eco-protection, but in some areas, the environment has been
deteriorated. This is mainly due to the inadequate enforcement of
laws and regulations.
Many problems are caused by people's unawareness of the importance
of ecology. To resolve these questions, we need to enhance legislation
and enforcement of the environmental laws .
Xie Zhenhua also says that strengthening enforcement of laws is
an important work in the future. He gives an example of a polluting
paper mills in Gansu Province, which have not been under well control.
He urges local governments to pay more attention to these problems
and accelerate law making and enforcement.
(CIIC 12/22/2000)
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