Yangtze Development Plan Issued
China issued a new development plan for the Yangtze River Economic Belt which includes 2 municipalities and 9 provinces and is set to promote a green low-carbon development and repairs most of the environmental damage which accrued along the Yangtze River by 2020. The goal of the plan is to improve the ecological environment and biodiversity along the river, protect water resources by preventing pollution, restoring the function of wetlands and also increasing the coastal forest coverage rate to 43% to avert flooding. By 2030, water environment, water quality and ecosystem function shall be improved. Furthermore, the central government plans to gradually implement a negative list of banned industry activities along the economic belt. Among the planned measures are preventing industrial and agricultural pollution as well as urban sewage disposal into the river and strict prevention and control of ship pollution. The repairing activities will be followed by water resource management and other strict standards to protect the Yangtze River environment in the future. To the article...
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