Mayor apologizes over N China river contamination(3)

The authorities should publish the information in time in order to dampen public fears, Wang said.

Jiang Rui, vice head of Heilongjiang Provincial Research Institute of Environmental Sciences, believes the country should promote the construction of chemical industry parks to better regulate and supervise factories.

Polluting enterprises should avoid situating their plants along major rivers and remove pollution risks by eliminating backward production capacity, Jiang added.