BEIJING, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- China now has over 1.2 million "river chiefs," or stewards assigned for each waterway to tackle water pollution, according to a report.
The report on the enforcement of the water pollution prevention and control law was submitted Friday to the ongoing bimonthly session of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, for deliberation.
The law, which was revised in June 2017, stipulated a "river chief" system at the provincial, city, county and village levels in the country, with leading officials assuming responsibility for addressing water pollution, including resource protection, waterline management, pollution prevention and control, and ecological restoration.
A total of 31 provincial-level regions have finished setting up the system, said the report.
