Unlimited Term for China's Xi Could Mean Green Push Continues

摘要

China's war on pollution and campaign for stronger ecological protections could continue for decades, now that President Xi Jinping has been approved to remain in power past his original two-term limit.Xi, who took office in 2013, has launched aggressive air and water pollution reduction efforts that created havoc for factories and supply chains across China, particularly in the past year, when thousands of small polluting companies were fined, suspended, or shuttered. In the second half of 2017, Beijing witnessed its cleanest air in years due to intense targeting of airborne pollution.