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Article: China to Clean Liaohe River in Five to Ten Years
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- August 20, 1996
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A high-ranking Chinese official today promised to clean the Liaohe
River in northeast China in five to ten years.
The State Council has listed the river as the priority in the next
five year's pollution-control scheme, said State Councillor Song Jian
at a working conference on pollution-control of the Liaohe River.
Liaohe river flows through northeast China's Liaoning and Jilin
provinces, and north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The
river basin, covering an area of 220,000 square kilometers, has a
population of 30 million.
The river has been polluted mainly by ...