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China News Agency, Beijing, June 4 (reporter Dong Guanyang) the 2013 China environmental situation bulletin released 4th in Beijing. Figures show that the water environment quality in China is not optimistic, the national overall lightly polluted surface water; 4,778 groundwater monitoring sites across the country, poor and very poor water quality of up to 59.6%.

According to the China of the environmental quality standard for surface water, surface waters based on environmental features and protection goals, by function, from high to low I-v were in turn divided into five categories, below the v class v class for deterioration of water quality of water. According to the Communique, in 2013, the Yangtze River, Yellow River, Pearl River, Zhejiang, Fujian and southwestern rivers, rivers in ten major State-controlled section of the River, IV-v class v class and deterioration of water quality water quality section respectively at 19.3% and 9%, that is close to 30% falls short of drinking water standards, nor does it apply to aquaculture and to swim.

In addition, ambient air quality in Chinese cities is at stake. According to the new ambient air quality standards, 74 new standards across the country to monitor the implementation of urban ambient air quality is up to standard compared to 4.1%.

At the same time, disturbing the soil environmental quality of cultivated land in China, regional degradation problem is more serious. Year net decrease of 80,200 ha of cultivated land area of the country. Soil erosion in the country has a total area of 295 million hectares, covers a land area of 30.7%.

Vice Minister of China's Ministry of environmental protection Li Ganjie said on 4th, environmental protection departments will focus on playing well "three battles" – the control of air pollution, water pollution prevention and control, prevention of soil pollution, efforts to improve the quality of air, water and soil environments.

Following the severe haze "atmosphere ten" after the Li Ganjie said the formulating of the Department of environmental protection issued "ten water", "ten".

According to Li Ganjie introduced, "water ten article" will "caught two, and with middle", that a grasping drinking water water to, water better water of water guarantees work, guarantee water not declined, and not degradation; another a for has serious pollution of bad v class water, especially effects people more, and public concern degrees high of black stink water, sharply reduced even eliminated, and led Middle General water of pollution control.

Plan of action for the prevention of soil pollution, said Li Ganjie, the "ten" aimed at breaking all kinds of pollution, curb the expansion of soil pollution trends; and implementation of soil management remediation engineering, strengthen the supervision of development and utilization of construction land to protect Habitat on environmental health. (End text)

(Original title: water quality is not optimistic in China last year near 60% poor groundwater quality)

15:51 June 04, 2014 China News Network