Article: Yuan65,000m per year for China's environment

China's National Environmental Protection Agency (NEPA) has announced that an average of Yuan65,000 million ($7,840 million) per year are to be spent on environmental projects in China until 2000, under the remaining years of the Government's Ninth 5-Year Plan (1996-2000). This announcement confirms earlier reports made in the Chinese press in Autumn 1996 (see HAZNEWS, September 1996, p. 18). The NEPA said this will bring pollution "under control" by the year 2000, according to Xinhua news agency reports from the BBC Monitoring Service. The planned annual budget is 62.5% more than the annual Yuan40,000 million reportedly spent under China's Eighth 5-Year Plan period ...

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