Environment watchdog names pollution reduction laggards

The top environment authority named and shamed three provincial regions - Qinghai and Yunnan provinces and the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region - on Monday for their delayed efforts to fulfill their water pollution reduction targets.

Since the Action Plan on Water Pollution Control and Prevention launched the national campaign in 2015, industrial zones, due to their large emissions, have been a major reduction target.

All industrial zones were required to install equipment to process sewage and to automatically monitor processing and discharging by the end of 2017, the action plan said.