China's Tainted Soil Initiative Lacks Pay Plan

(Beijing) – A voluminous "action plan" for cleaning up 90 percent of China's contaminated farms and old factory sites by 2020 is lacking an important detail: Actionable funding.

The 231-clause, 13,000-Chinese character Action Plan for Soil Pollution Prevention and Control was released May 31 by the State Council, China's cabinet, after undergoing some 50 draft revisions over the previous three years.