中国将着手治理土壤污染
A plan for tackling soil pollution in China has been unveiled.
中国公布一项治理土壤污染的计划。
It aims at curbing the problem by 2020, controlling it by 2030, and forming a so-called virtuous cycle in the ecosystem by 2050.
According to the latest figures from the environment and resources authority, over 16 percent of China's surveyed land is polluted by heavy metals like cadmium, arsenic, lead and mercury.
Soil pollution is severe in three major industrial regions - the old industrial area in Northeast China, the Yangtze River Delta on the east coast, and the Pearl River Delta in the south.
Some regions in China have suffered deteriorating soil quality due to exposure to extensive industrial development and toxic emissions
To control soil pollution by heavy metals, China has vowed to cut the discharge of major heavy metal pollutants in key industries by 10 percent from 2013 levels, by 2020.