SHANTOU, China, Sept. 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- China-based Science and Technology Daily recently published an article: Guiyu, A Town in Southern China That, Within Two Years, Demonstrated Remarkable Achievements in Sewage Disposal. The English translation of the original article appears in full below:
Chaoyang District, a section of the city of Shantou in southern China's Guangdong Province, claims success in its work with sewage treatment, delivering the kind of environment to the local people of the district that they could only dream of.
On September 6th, Zuo Zhaosheng, a reporter from Science and Technology Daily, followed the local government's sewage disposal department staff in the field as they inspected the many bodies of water that dot the city of Chaoyang. They saw clear water, blue skies, and breathed in fresh and clean air. It would have seemed inconceivable just a two short years ago that the now clear water of a pond used to be a black and smelly pit that could kill any fish that happened upon it, had they not looked at "before" pictures taken at the location.
This particular war on water pollution began in Guiyu Town in 2013. In the Guiyu Town of today, boasts a charming variety of buildings, evenly-spaced yards, clear water and clean roads, much the same as in the other small and rich towns that dot the Guangdong Province landscape.
Local authorities explained that originally more than 5,000 dismantling workshops lined the streets of the town. Nearly 3,000 of them were ordered to shut down and the rest resettled in an industrial park built specifically the dismantling business, in a move to return a clean environment to the town.
A look at the town's recent developments since the reform and opening-up policy took effect in China, Guiyu Town had gradually built a recycling and dismantling processing industry. However, Guiyu Town's environment paid a terrible price for the economic development.
Chaoyang District is the epitome of the many Chinese cities that are engaging in pollution control and environmental protection. China, which had once gone through rapid development at the cost of its environment, is suffering from the pollution, but its ability to implement pollution controls has also won the widespread trust of its people.
