Environmental watchdogs to sharpen teeth

The top environmental watchdog has published a plan to give muscle to the country's monitoring capacity from 2006 to 2010.

The plan was jointly developed by the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the Ministry of Finance.

It would require about 15 billion yuan in investment, of which, 7.8 billion yuan would come from the national treasury. The rest would come from local governments and companies.