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CPPCC member Wu Zhizhong was elated when recalling the happy days
of playing and catching fish, shrimps and crabs in the shallow
waters of the Bohai Sea when he was a child, but he was very much
frustrated when he told his fellow CPPCC members that the sea is
now tainted with floating trashes and spilled oil and other
pollutants.
"It brooks no delay to salvage the sea," said Wu Zhizhong, who has
developed a special feeling for the sea hemmed in on three sides by
Liaoning, Hebei and Shandong provinces and Tianjin Municipality
known as the Bohai-rim economic sphere.
A
member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political
Consultative Conference (CPPCC) now attending the annual session in
Beijing, Wu said that "humans are the main culprits accounting for
the deterioration of the quality of the sea water. Sewage and dirt
are emptied into the sea by more than 40 rivers, including the
Yellow River, the Xiaoqing River, the Haihe River, the Luanhe River
and the Liaohe River. The contaminated water and sewage water from
the cities of the two provinces and the Tianjin Municipality are
discharged directly into the sea. It was estimated that a total of
2.8 billion tons of sewage water and more than 700,000 tons of dirt
are discharged into the sea every year."
Wu
urged departments concerned to act strictly in accordance with the
law and give top priority to environmental protection and ban the
building of polluting projects.
The polluting sources around the sea must be ordered to control and
treat their wastes so that they would not flow into the sea
directly, he suggested.
(People's Daily March 7, 2003)
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