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Chengdu to spend over 500 bln yuan improving environment

Xinhua, February 19, 2016 Adjust font size:

Chengdu plans to spend more than 500 billion yuan (about 77 billion U.S. dollars) in the next ten years to improve local environment, the municipal information office said on Friday.

The provincial capital of Sichuan outlined an environmental protection plan to contain average PM 2.5 density in the city to less than 50 microgrammes per cubic meter by 2025, down more than 20 percent on the 2015 average.

The city's forest coverage is to be raised above 41 percent by the same date, an increase of around 8 percent.

Over 200 projects will cover water, air and soil pollution and treatment of waste.

Chengdu is preparing to shift from a growth mode which sacrifices environment to one that is led by it, said Zhu Xiaowen with the city's development and reform commission. Endite