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2009: The Year of the Environmental Tax

January 5th, 2009 · 4 Comments

Zhang Lijun, Vice Minister of Environmental Protection recently announced that work on “introducing [an] environmental tax . . . will be the focus of energy-saving and pollutant reduction schedule in 2009.” 
Grizzled observers of China’s environmental policy development will not get too excited at this news.  The idea was floated at least as early as October 2007, [...]

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