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Provincial inspections to check environmental policies' implementation

Xinhua, July 19, 2016 Adjust font size:

China has sent inspectors to check whether central authorities' environmental protection policies are being implemented in eight provincial-level regions.

Eight groups headed by ministerial-level officials, legislators and political advisors will spend about a month in Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Henan, Guangxi, Yunnan and Ningxia.

They will also check treatment of polluted areas, focusing particularly on issues of concern for local people.

In a pep-rally before the inspection, Communist Party of China chiefs of the eight regions urged local authorities there to cooperate with the inspection. Endi