Yichang touts green growth

Chemical plants targeted to help protect Yangtze

Yichang - home to the world's largest hydropower project, the Three Gorges Dam - is gearing up to help fight pollution by shuttering or relocating all chemical companies within 1 kilometer of the Yangtze River by 2020, according to its city government.

Zhang Jiasheng, mayor of Yichang and a deputy to the 13th National People's Congress, said cutting pollution and upgrading the region's chemical industry will not only foster higher-quality growth, but also help preserve the environmental sustainability of the country's longest river.