China’s environment close to breakdown
Pan Yue, an outspoken vice minister at China’s State Environmental Protection Administration, tells China Daily that campaigns to clean-up the environment are going backwards because the country’s primary focus continues to be on economic growth. According to this article Pan says:
China’s environment is close to breaking point and the situation is endangering people’s lives.
Pan was quoted as saying that “people’s lives are in great danger.” The following picture helps sum up China’s official ideology on the environment. The slogan says “The Path To Development.”
What powers does China’s environmental protection agency have to tackle this problem? The Financial Times reported in Lack of clout hits Chinese pollution agency that “local governments were often protecting polluters rather than cracking down on them.” The agency also complains of “a copper company of refusing entry to its inspectors, graphically illustrating its lack of clout over industrial polluters.”
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