New stats show some 28-million yuan worth of fines have been collected from environmental violations so far this year.

This comes after the Chinese government revised its Environmental Protection Laws at the beginning of this year.

Under the revised rules, if companies fail to fix violations, they face unlimited daily fines until the problems are fixed.

The old regulations would only hit companies with one-time penalties, allowing many companies to take the one-off hit, rather than addressing the fundamental problems