Inner Mongolia Set to Curb Environmental DeteriorationThe Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, north China, has decided to restructure its agriculture and animal husbandry while trying to protect the worsening bio-environment, according to a senior official of regional committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC).Liu Mingzu, secretary of the CPC Committee of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, said it is the government's primary task to curb the extension of desert and protect the pasture so that progress can be made in environmental protection and stock breeding. The region will strive to make rational use of underground water, reduce the use of plastic film, and farm chemicals, and control industrial pollution, according to a government plan. Inner Mongolia has about 87 million hectares of grassland, accounting for 22 percent of China's total. Last year, the region yielded 1.5 million tons of meat and 800,000 tons of milk. As excessive grazing over the years is blamed for the deterioration of the environment, the regional government has decided that animal raising should be kept at a rational scale, and diversified business undertakings should be developed to improve the local economic structure. |
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