I love it when Chinese officials become dismissively indignant even when they are just flat out, demonstrably wrong. Here’s a classic.
Chinese Minister of Environmental Protection has refuted doubts over the accuracy of the air quality test results in Beijing during the 2008 Olympics and blamed media’s exaggeration of the capital’s pollution.
Zhou Shengxian said during [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Zhou Shengxian'
Beijing Makes Straw Man of Paper Tiger
July 6th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Tags: Zhou Shengxian · air pollution
Charge of the Light Brigade
June 5th, 2009 · 5 Comments
Hats off to Zhou Shengxian, the Minister of the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP)! He has always been fairly outspoken and frankly critical of local implementation of national environmental laws and policies, but his comments today in an interview with China Daily reveal a new level of commitment to China’s environment, and a candor not often [...]
Tags: MEP · Zhou Shengxian · carbon emissions · economic stimulus · environmental enforcement · environmental policy · miscellany · rural pollution
2009: Backsliding or Green “Sprint”?
January 13th, 2009 · No Comments
The Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) has articulated the concerns of many that the need for economic stimulating activities may result in backsliding on the environmental front in China. Zhou Shengxian, the Minister of MEP, in remarks before a national conference on environmental protection on Monday, said that “factories with backward facilities ‘would revive’, using [...]
Tags: 11th Five year Plan · MEP · Zhou Shengxian · air pollution · water pollution