China Tibet Online
August 7, 2015
Multiple measures will be taken to step up environmental protection in Tibet, including the law. In future, all kinds of measures may be explored to take legal actions against ecological violations to protect public interests, Xinhua reported.
According to the People’s Procuratorate of the Tibet Autonomous Region, the procuratorial authority will seek to establish a criminal justice protection mechanism for ecological resources. The mechanism shall be based on prosecutor’s prosecution functions, integrate criminal prosecution resources, and focus on the comprehensive application of such means as arrest, prosecution, litigation supervision, and investigation and prevention of job-related crimes.
“Tibet’s ecological resources have always been maintained at a good level. A good ecological environment is in itself an invaluable resource and the largest late-developing advantage enjoyed by Tibet,” Chief Procurator Zhang Peizhong said, “Strengthening judicial protection of the ecological environment is a duty-bound responsibility of the procuratorial authority, politically and legally.”
The Fifth Work Conference on Tibet made it very clear to build Tibet into a national ecological security barrier. Now Tibet has made eco-environmental protection a bottom line or red line and incorporated it into the environmental performance assessment for 74 counties (or districts) within the region to make it remain a land of clear water and azure sky.
