Plan targets polluted water

XIAMEN, Fujian - Marine ecological restoration has been included for the first time in the country's highest-level planning.

The inclusion of a key anti-pollution task in the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015) is part of a concerted effort to deal with the problem of worsening marine pollution.

Wang Bin, deputy director of the department of marine environment protection at the State Oceanic Administration, said on Friday that China's marine and coastal areas are suffering from massive pollution. He said the prevention and control of pollution from industrialized coastal areas will be a major task during the coming five years.