Forum seeks better ways to enforce law against polluters

Prosecutors from various provinces along the Yangtze River are set to improve coordination in filing public-interest lawsuits against perpetrators of environmental crimes.

Prosecutors gathered at a forum in Shanghai last week to discuss how to share information in cases that cross jurisdictions, as well as how to conduct joint operations and exchanges, solve problems in forensics and establish a fund for public-interest litigation.

Organized by the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the two-day forum, which ended on Friday, included procurators and legislators from the Yangtze River Economic Belt. They discussed how to handle environmental crimes to ensure the healthy development of the economic belt.