Environment: Protection strategy
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-04-24 15:07
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has called for stricter measures to ensure
officials responsible for pollution accidents are held to account, noting that
environmental protection has still not received enough attention in some
areas.
"Those who cause major pollution accidents through making wrong
decisions or lax supervision must be severely punished," Wen said on April 17 at
the sixth national environmental protection conference held in Beijing. The full
transcript of the speech was published on Sunday.
The official
accountability system has already led to the sacking of government officials
after environmental incidents, including former environmental chief Xie Zhenhua
after the Songhua River accident last November.
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