Pollution census launched

ZHENGZHOU: A thorough census of pollution sources involving a 30,000-member task force was launched in Henan yesterday to help better address the province's environmental issues.

According to Wang Guoping, director of the Henan Provincial Environmental Protection Bureau and head of the provincial pollution source census office, the large-scale campaign is a response to the first nationwide survey encouraged by China's environmental watchdog on tracing sources of industrial, agricultural and residential pollution.

Wang appealed on Monday to all staff in the environmental field to put the census at the top of this year's agenda.