China has launched a pilot campaign to tackle major environmental problems in its vast rural areas, according to the State Environmental Protection Administration of China.
The program is a major move of the Chinese government over the next five years to overhaul the rural environment in a bid to enable farmers to bid farewell to the garbage-ridden and dust-smothered environment.
At present, the program has already been carried out in six provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities and counties, including Jiangsu, Jilin and Ningxia. And the program is to extend gradually to other parts of the country, the administration said.
Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in northwestern China was the first region that had experimented with the program. According to the Administration, Ningxia's double-digit economic growth in the past five years has laid a solid foundation for its implementation.