This Day, That Year
China Daily | Updated: 2016-11-30 06:51
Item from Nov 30, 1999, in China Daily: Children call for clean air: Elementary school pupils from the children's organization Hand-in-Hand Global Village read a letter expressing their concern over ozone layer depletion. ...
They read it during the opening ceremony of yesterday's ozone convention.
China has phased out 250,000 metric tons of ozone-depleting substances, or ODS, in the past five years, accounting for more than a half of the total amount phased out by all developing countries, according to the Ministry of Environmental Protection.
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