Green plan 'requires new focus'

SHANGHAI: More measures are needed to protect the ecology of this city's rural and suburban areas during the current period of industrial restructuring, a top environment official said yesterday.

Zhang Quan, director of the Shanghai environmental protection bureau, said at a press briefing, that now is the time to shift the focus from urban areas and tackle environmental problems in the suburbs and the countryside, as more and more factories move their production bases there.

The restructuring is also putting a strain on the rural infrastructure, he added.