Steel-maker failed to rectify problems

Inspectors discovered waste was dumped along the Yangtze River

China's top environmental watchdog sharply criticized the country's largest private steel-maker on Thursday for failing to carry out rectification plans and dumping steel slag along the Yangtze River in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu province.

According to the environmental inspection team sent by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the steelmaker, Shagang Group, has been dumping large amounts of waste from the steelmaking process along the banks of the Yangtze, posing great danger to nearby waters and soil.