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Environment Chief Targets Impact of Economic Stimulus

Zhou Shengxian, China's minister of environmental protection, is concerned about the impact that China's 4 trillion yuan economic stimulus plan is having on the country's already fragile environment. ...full story at China Journal

from China Journal on Fri, Jun 05 2009

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