East China Province Builds Emergency Environmental Monitoring SystemEast China's Jiangxi province has begun to build an emergency monitoring and rapid reaction center for environmental disasters.Officials from Jiangxi Provincial Environmental Protection Bureau say the computerized system will offer assistance to relevant departments and personnel to enable them to control damage in the shortest possible time. Xiong Yu, chief engineer of Jiangxi Provincial Monitoring Center, said Jiangxi has been hit by several major environmental disasters in the last few years including the leakage of chlorine in 1994 at Ganjiang Chemical Plant. In 1997, a major leakage of chlorine from Jiujiang Chemical Plant caused air and soil pollution, he said. |
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