Beijing: People harming environment in China will be executed. According to a new legislative people who are reckless violators of pollution standards will be dealt with in the harshest possible way.
The decision is significant as China battles with some of the worst pollution levels in the world.
The government will soon issue precise guidelines for the conviction and sentencing.
The country has seen drastic increase in pollution levels due to rapid industrialisation and lax and superficial implementation of the environment laws.
Law enforcement should take environmental regulations seriously and “all force should be mobilized to uncover law-breaking clues of environmental pollution in a timely way,” the statement on Xinhua news agency reads.
China is desperately trying to improve the quality of air in its cities. Recently, it announced new measure to tackle the pollution menace. The capital city promised to focus more on solar energy and proposed 10 other pollution controlling measures.
China aims to cut down pollution level by 30 per cent by the end of 2017.
It also wants to curb the growth of high-energy-consuming industries such as cement, steel, glass and aluminum.
According to a report published in April 2010 by Global Burden of Disease Study, air pollution in China was a contributing factor to 1.2 million premature deaths in 2010, almost 40 percent of the global total. Researchers equate that figure to 25 million healthy years of life from the population.
Urban air pollution is set to become the top environmental cause of mortality worldwide by 2050, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Earlier this year, entire Beijing was engulfed in smog as pollution levels increased by 22 times the permissible limit.
In the picture, file photo of China Central Television building in heavy haze in Beijing's central business district.
