Gansu pollutes Yellow River badly

时间：2007-07-13 01:30:17

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Chinanews, Lanzhou, July 12 – The water quality of the Yellow River in Qinghai Province can be categorized as level 2, quite good, but the quality of the water sample collected from the same Yellow River in Baiyin, Gansu Province is at level 5, severely1 polluted.

 

About 500 km of the Yellow River flow through Gansu Proince. Along that part of the river, are many industrial cities, like Lanzhou and Baiyin.

 

Statistics from Gansu Provincial2 Ecoenviromental Protection Administration, Gansu discharges 237 million tons of sewage into the Yellow River every year. Besides, only 34% of domestic sewage are treated before being discharged into the river.

 

A research team sent by the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, China’s top advisory3 body, also confirmed the pollution of the Yellow River caused by Gansu.

 

In the 10th Five-Year Plan Period (2001-2005), China invested 1.4 billion yuan to treat pollution in the Gansu Section of the Yellow Rive, and another 4.97 billion yuan will be invested in the 11th Five-Year Plan Period (2006-2010). However, it won’t be easy to restore the Yellow River to its original condition, as the pollution was not caused overnight.

 
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1 severely SiCzmk     
adv.严格地；严厉地；非常恶劣地
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  • He was severely criticized and removed from his post.他受到了严厉的批评并且被撤了职。
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2 provincial Nt8ye     
adj.省的，地方的；n．外省人，乡下人
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  • City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes.城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。
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