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Chinese legislators have passed the first amendments to the country’s environmental protection law in 25 years, promising greater powers for
environmental authorities and harsher punishments for polluters.

The amendments, which the Standing Committee of National People’s
Congress passed on Thursday after two years of debate, will allow
authorities to detain company bosses for 15 days if they do not
complete environmental impact assessments or ignore warnings to stop
polluting. The new law will come into practice on 1 January.


Since China’s environmental protection law was passed in 1989, the
country has become the world’s second-largest economy and its biggest
carbon emitter; decades of breakneck economic growth have left many of its rivers desiccated and its cities perennially shrouded in smog.

Over the past year, the Chinese government has begun to emphasise
environmental protection in its official rhetoric. The new law “sets
environmental protection as the country’s basic policy,” state news agency Xinhua reported.

At an annual parliamentary meeting in March, premier Li Keqiang said
that the government will “resolutely declare war against pollution as
we declared war against poverty”.