Emissions Control: Blue Skies or Smokescreen?

(Beijing) – Skeptics rolled their eyes after the Ministry of Environmental Protection announced in July that every province, municipality and autonomous region, as well as eight state-owned conglomerates, had met all government-set targets for cutting air and water pollution in 2014.

Fueling the skepticism were long-held doubts about how data is collected and pollution-fighting progress assessed in China – doubts that some industry and government officials say are not only valid but ought to spur change.