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Article: China provincial pollution control drive
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- Haznews
- Article date:
- April 1, 1997
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The north and south Chinese provinces of Jilin and Anhui respectively have stepped up environmental protection measures to achieve pollution control targets set by the Chinese Government. Jilin province has spent Yuan518 million ($62.4 million) on controlling 327 sources of pollution in the petrochemicals sector, and on pollution control facilities for industrial projects under construction, rebuilding or expansion. The province now treats more than 70% of its industrial waste; "a rate nearing the country's average", according to Xinhua news agency reports from the BBC Monitoring Service. This has been achieved under the province's "Blue Sky, Clean Water" project, which ...