Company was told to stop polluting; it secretly resumed production insteadThree officials responsible for a county in the Ningxia Hui autonomous region have been removed from their posts after a company that violated environmental protection rules resumed production without authorization.Qian Kexiao, Party secretary of Yongning county in Ningxia's capital, Yinchuan, and Li Runjun, head of the county government, have been held accountable for the situation along with Xu Qing, vice-mayor of Yinchuan, who oversees environmental protection in the city.Qian is also a member of the Standing Committee of the Yinchuan Committee of the Communist Party of China, according to a statement from Ningxia authorities on Saturday.The decision was made in a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Ningxia Committee of the Communist Party of China presided over by Shi Taifeng, Ningxia's Party secretary. The committee also established a team to investigate the three officials.In 2016, environmental inspectors from the central government asked Ningxia Tairui Pharmaceutical Co in Yongning to rectify its environmental violations after finding that an "undesirable odor" emitted by the factory had affected nearby residents' lives.Tairui was ordered to suspend production after the inspectors revisited Ningxia in June and found it had failed to rectify the problem.The company released gas with an offensive odor at least once a day. The inspection team received 28 public reports on the first day after arriving in Yinchuan in June, with 17 of the complaints related to Tairui.Tairui said on June 22 that it would suspend production and relocate its factory.Local inspectors in Ningxia found during a recent visit to the company, however, that Tairui had resumed production without authorization."This is a case that's vile in nature and with especially flagrant circumstances," the meeting of the regional CPC Standing Committee said. The committee will launch an investigation into Tairui and its executives and severely punish its environmental violations, it said.Local authorities had shut down and sealed all the facilities that Tairui used for its clandestine production, as of 7 am on Saturday.The committee also vowed to comb through major companies in Ningxia for environmental violations and to ensure that any found are "completely rectified". Regular environmental inspections and law enforcement will also be enhanced, it said.Tairui, in Yinchuan Wangyuan Industrial Park, claims to be China's largest production and export base for veterinary antibiotics and a major global producer. Established in 2000, it has about 3,000 employees and boasts total assets of 6 billion yuan ($872 million)[email protected] (China Daily 08/20/2018 page4) wristbands canadacustom silicone bracelets canadarubber bracelets canadasilicone bracelets canadasilicone wristbands canadacustom wristbands canadacanadian wristbandswristbands canada
The State Council, China's cabinet, will report annually on the management of State-owned assets to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, a vital way to boost transparency and maintain the values of such assets, according to a guideline released on Sunday.The assets should include those of State-owned enterprises - including financial assets and natural resources - and especially assets used in China's outbound foreign investments, according to the guideline.The management system of State-owned assets should be improved during restructuring, and strategic mergers for the State-owned economy should be accelerated to maintain and increase the value of these assets, Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, said in the report to the 19th CPC National Congress in October.The guideline was adopted at the first meeting of the Leading Group for Deepening Overall Reform of the 19th CPC Central Committee, which Xi presided over on Nov 20.The guideline said the annual report is a vital measure to strengthen State-owned asset management, as emphasized in Xi's report to the congress.It ensures that the National People's Congress will exercise its supervisory authority and boost the transparency of State-owned assets, which can help keep and increase the values of such assets and the welfare of the public, a statement released after the meeting said.Zhu Lijia, a professor of public management at the Chinese Academy of Governance, said the NPC Standing Committee, as the top legislature, has the power to supervise and consult over State-owned assets.The report is a crucial step to spotlight how State-owned assets are being used and will be beneficial to controlling losses in State-owned assets by enhancing management transparency, he said.Since the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012, Chinese companies have made leaps in making investments and contracting projects overseas, Zhu said.Since these assets are hard to trace and manage, the report is a good way to strengthen supervision of them and prevent the loss of State-owned assets earned from investments and contracts in other countries, he said.Strengthened supervision can also make SOEs more cautious in investing overseas and can help protect State-owned assets, Zhu added.
