China's first self-construction plan on environment protection has been formally approved. According to the plan, China will invest RMB14.96 billion to implement 50 key environmental projects by 2010.

According to a representative from China's Ministry of Environmental Protection, the plan focuses on the construction of an advanced environment inspection and pre-warning system and a complete environment law enforcement supervision system, and it will cover basically all the fields of environment inspection, environment supervision, nuclear and radiation, environment research, environment information and statistics and environment education. In addition, it sets 13 key tasks which include consummating environment inspection institution's standardization level, constructing key pollutants' automatic monitoring system, improving the management capacity of nature reserves and speeding up environment information and statistics construction.

The representative says that the plan will dramatically improve China's environment supervision capacity and empower the country's realization of the goal of its emission control.

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