Chinese environment authorities will establish a system to prevent and punish environmental data fraud, according to an official.

 

中国环保局将建立一套防止并惩罚环境数据欺诈的系统。

 

Since environmental monitoring is an important part of technical support in environment management, the ministry¹ will give administrative² penalties to people involved in environmental data fraud and transfer them to judicial³ organs for investigation⁴ if necessary, said the official with the Ministry of Environmental Protection.

 

Xi'an Intermediate People's Court in northwest China's Shaanxi Province Friday sentenced seven people, including the heads of two environmental protection branches, to imprisonments of over one year for falsifying air quality monitoring data.

 

The court said they interfered⁵ in the data collection of air quality, and used cotton to fill sampling instruments to lower pollution data, in February and March 2016.

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