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 curbing¹ the problem by 2020, controlling it by 2030, and forming a so-called virtuous² cycle in the ecosystem³ 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, arsenic⁴, lead and mercury.

 

Soil pollution is severe in three major industrial regions - the old industrial area in Northeast China, the Yangtze River Delta⁵ on the east coast, and the Pearl River Delta in the south.

 

Some regions in China have suffered deteriorating⁶ soil quality due to exposure to extensive industrial development and toxic⁷ emissions⁸

 

To control soil pollution by heavy metals, China has vowed⁹ to cut the discharge of major heavy metal pollutants¹⁰ in key industries by 10 percent from 2013 levels, by 2020.

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