BIZCHINA / Backgrounder
Greening efforts pay off
(China Daily)
Updated: 2006-04-25 13:49
Shenyang, capital of Liaoning Province, covers a land area of 13,000
square kilometres, and has a population of 7.2 million, with 5 million of
its urban.
As a heavy industry base, Shenyang used to be a highly polluted city. To
solve environmental problems, local authorities launched a large
tree-planting campaign and invested about 5.5 billion yuan (US$687.5
million) in increasing green area over the past four years.
At present, green area of the city has reached 114 square kilometres,
with per capita public green land at 12 square metres.
According to the official website of the expo, green area have increased
especially in the last three years. Now Shenyang has set up 13 natural
reserves, accounting for 13.5 per cent of the total area of the city.
Meanwhile, authorities also strengthened pollution control over
manufacturing enterprises.
More than 600 heavy-polluting operations, such as metal smelting, cement
and papermaking, moved out or shut down.
In addition, a comprehensive sewage treatment system has been established
in the city to ensure proper handling of household and industrial waste.
The government has set up and renovated five sewage treatment factories.
The rate of sewage treatment grew to 71 per cent in 2004 from 48 per cent
in 2000.
Thanks to the municipal government's efforts, ecological environment of
the city has been significantly restored. It was rated as a national
green city last August.
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