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Cutting steel production and shutting down 50,000 coal
furnaces will be a good start
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China
China’s Premier Says He’ll Go to War on the Country’s
Terrible Smog
His statement is the
highest-level acknowledgement yet of the enormous challenges China faces
By Per Liljas March 05, 2014 / http://world.time.com/2014/03/05/china-pollution-li-keqiang-declares-war/
At the opening of China’s National People’s Congress on
Wednesday, Premier Li Keqiang said that the country will “declare war” on its
appalling pollution.
Li described the issue of smog as “nature’s red-light
warning against inefficient and blind development,” and said that efforts would
focus on reducing hazardous particulate indicators PM 2.5 and PM 10.
“This is an acknowledgement at the highest level that there
is a crisis,” Craig Hart, an expert on Chinese environmental policy and
associate professor at China’s Renmin University, told Reuters.
Measures will include cutting outdated steel production
capacity by 27 million tonnes this year, cement production by 42 million tonnes
and the shutting down of 50,000 small coal-fired furnaces. Apart from curbing
smog, Li also said that Beijing would aim to tackle the country’s severe water
and soil pollution.
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