City gets tough on pollution

　　SHENZHEN has stepped up the fight to contain industrial pollution, vowing to get tougher with the city’s polluting factories. Polluting factories which fail to meet pollutant discharge standards will be shut down or moved out of the city by the end of June next year, the Daily Sunshine reported yesterday, quoting a top environmental official. Shenzhen was chosen as a pilot city in March to regulate the sources of pollutant emissions. Sources of industrial pollution in Shenzhen are scattered in many regions, making it harder for the city to reach the environmental standards set by the State, the official said. However, officials said they would not be deterred from doing their job. A special taskforce has been set up to urge key polluting enterprises to meet the standards by the appointed time, officials said. The first batch of key polluting sources which have been asked to meet pollutant discharge standards includes 88 enterprises. From this week, an inspection of polluting enterprises will be launched. A file of these firms will be set up. <2001> (Kang Wei)