While the overriding focus remains on economic growth, local officials are marked down if they fail to improve the environment, but they have tended to try to have it both ways, encouraging big companies like Zijin to spend heavily on high-profile environmental projects, such as parks and land reclamation, without risking disruption to economic activity.
“Local cities and government officials have been able to channel more investment money toward environmental infrastructure,” Wang said. “But we’ve not seen any significant improvements in basic bread-and-butter environmental regulation — the business of monitoring facilities and making sure they comply with pollution standards.”
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