Watchful eyes on the environment

AT A NEWS CONFERENCE on the sidelines of the first session of the 13th National People's Congress, the top legislature, on Saturday, Li Ganjie, the minister of environmental protection and chief-to-be of the newly-approved Ministry of Ecological Environment, said the central government's environmental protection inspections will be maintained as part of the efforts to strengthen environmental protection. Ynet.com comments:

Since they were launched, the central government's environmental protection inspections have won people's praise.

However, there are some local officials who hold a wait-and-see attitude, believing the campaign will not last long and "yesterday's story" of polluting for profits will be repeated after they cease some day. But such hopes are in vain, since instead of ending the inspections the top authorities are resolved to strengthen ecological and environmental protection.