Chongqing halts major projects on the Yangtze

In May, the news that Yunyang county in Southwest China's Chongqing rejected a 10 billion-yuan ($1.46 billion) project because of environmental reasons drew public attention.

The local government had followed the project for eight years. If the industry were settled in this remote county, it could create over 10,000 local jobs.

But the county chose to give up the project after it failed to pass the environmental impact assessment.