PTI
August 12, 2015
BEIJING: Chinese factories are discharging more than 2.8 billion tonnes of waste water, besides seven lakh tonnes of other pollutants, annually into Bohai sea in the north and northeast China, severely damaging local environment, a report said.
Altogether, the Bohai sea receives roughly half of all pollutants in China’s waters. This has severely affected the local fishing industry, causing fishing resources to shrink dramatically from 30,000 tonnes to between 1,000 and 3,000 tonnes, according to a report by Beijing-based ‘Economic Information Daily’.
A growing number of factories in Hebei, Liaoning and Shandong provinces and Tianjin Municipality have contributed to the pollution.
The report said waters close to a paper manufacturing plant in Shandong province and a zinc factory in Liaoning province had turned so toxic that the nearby seabed had become “a desert” with no marine life. “The dense population and heavy industries in the Bohai sea economic zone have led to large amounts of garbage and industrial pollutants going straight to the sea,” Ma Jun, director, of the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, was quoted as saying by state-run ‘Global Times’.
