Regions Found to Have 'Critical' Heavy Metal Emissions Now Clean Up Act

(Beijing) — Levels of heavy metal pollutants in many parts of China fell by 27.7% from 2007 to 2015, according to a study conducted by the Ministry of Environmental Protection.

Under China's 12th Five-Year Plan, which ran from 2011 to 2015, the central government invested more than 21 billion yuan ($3 billion) into cutting the volume of five major pollutants — lead, mercury, cadmium, chromium, and arsenic — released by factories.