The special environment protection operation 2005 has officially begun recently. Longstanding environment pollution problems that people have complained about repeatedly, pollution caused by enterprises in natural resource-dependent industries and environmental problems at key drainage areas will become the focus of the project.

According to Xie Zhenhua, director of State Environmental Protection Administration, efforts should be made in three aspects in order to carry out the environment protection project thoroughly:

To solve the longstanding environment pollution problems that people have complained about repeatedly but have not been fixed, in particular, pollution of sources of drinkable water, urban noise pollution and air pollution.

To fix the pollution problems in enterprises in natural resource-dependent industries, especially illegal construction and discharge of pollutant by enterprises in high energy-consuming industries like iron and steel, cement, electrolytic aluminum, iron alloy and coking.

To tackle the pollution at key drainage areas, especially the drainage area of the Taihu Lake, the Huaihe River and the juncture of Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Ningxia and Shanxi.

By People's Daily Online