BEIJING (AFP) - China's environment is close to breaking point and the situation is endangering people's lives, one of the nation's top anti-pollution officials said in comments published Wednesday.
Pan Yue, an outspoken vice minister at the State Environmental Protection Administration, said campaigns to clean-up the environment were going backwards because the country's primary focus continued to be on economic growth.
"Pursuit of short-term goals is leading to ever increasing pollution despite various measures," Pan told the China Daily in an interview.
"Traditional ways of development have caused the near breakdown of China's resources and environment, and people's lives are in great danger."
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