China is to revise both its air pollution protection law and its environmental protection law, Zhang Dejiang, the country's top legislator, said in Beijing.
His statement has renewed hopes in China that the government will secure an update to its 1989 environmental law, following three unsuccessful attempts to tighten up the legislation, Xinhua, the Chinese state's official press agency reported.
Zhang delivered his pledge in an address to the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, of which he is chairman, just days after Chinese Premier Li told the top legislative gathering that he had "declared war" on pollution. Li described smog as "nature's red-light warning" against inefficient and blind development. Among other measures Li promised to close 50,000 small coal-fired furnaces across China this year and introduce cleaning technologies such as desulphurization, denitrification and dust removal at coal-burning power plants.
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