Inspections find misuse of funds for fighting pollution

China has been conducting high-level provincial inspections and exposing the misuse of special funding intended to support the fight against air pollution.

In the ongoing central inspections in seven provincial-level regions, more than 1,100 officials have been summoned to talk about their performances in environmental protection, with 687 were held accountable, according to a statement released by the Ministry of Environmental Protection on Tuesday.

The inspection teams, headed by ministerial-level officials, have exposed and transferred 5,462 cases to the governments they inspected, and 112 people were detained, the statement said.