Local govts need more green awareness

While offering its investigation feed backs to the government of East China's Fujian province on Mon day, the central environmental inspection team said the good ecological foundation of the province had prompted some local officials to be overoptimistic about the health of the local environment and thus not address the environmental problems, which undermined the efforts to preserve the unique local marine ecology.

The environment inspection team also discovered that the local government had failed to fully abandon local policies and rules by June 2015, as required by the top authorities, which in turn obstructed environmental protection monitoring.

What shocked the inspection team most is the Shishi local government convening a "special meeting" in December 2015 to urge the city's environmental protection bureau to revoke an administrative punishment imposed on a local enterprise for violating the environmental protection law. The local government's move amounted to conniving with the enterprise to breach the environmental protection law.