Final round of pollution inspections underway

China launched the final round of high-level environmental inspections in eight provinces on Monday, ensuring all provincial regions receive a thorough one-month review of the implementation of their pollution-control measures.

The first inspection team started work on Monday and other inspections will begin at staggered times by Aug 15 in the provinces of Jilin, Zhejiang, Shandong, Hainan, Sichuan and Qinghai, and the Tibet and Xinjiang Uygur autonomous regions, the Ministry of Environmental Protection said.

Sichuan, home to many industrial regions along the Yangtze River, was the first to receive inspectors on Monday afternoon, the ministry said.