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For village official Zhou Shuangzheng, failing to keep the rivers clean in his community in Zhejiang province means he will be held accountable under a new regulation issued by the province's legislature last week.

Zhou, secretary of the Party branch of the village of Zhoucun in Yongkang, is one of the province's about 60,000"river chiefs" responsible for protecting the 40,000 rivers and lakes in Zhejiang. On Friday, the Zhejiang People's Congress reviewed and passed the regulation on river chiefs.