Polluting smelters shut down
By Cui Xiaohuo and Gong Zhengzheng | China Daily | Updated: 2008-10-15 07:43
WUHAN: Thirteen alloy smelting plants which have damaged farmers' skin and heavily polluted their fields were closed yesterday, Hubei provincial authorities said.
An inspection team led by environmental, health and supervision officials from the Hubei provincial government arrived in Jianli county, 200 km from provincial capital Wuhan, late yesterday afternoon.
"There are still three plants operating right now. We will close them tonight," Wen Qingsong, deputy head of the Hubei environmental protection bureau, told China Daily by phone yesterday.
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