Clean up costs
Ecological devastation in China is rampant: acrid, blackened air in industrial cities; rain that turns inky and corrosive with acidity; noxious mounds of untreated garbage and hazardous sludge spewed out by millions of township enterprises; dead fish in the Huaihe river; carbon dioxide emissions that account for one-tenth of the global total. Yet, China spent just US $6.3 billion (Rs 22,680 crore) on environment-related projects in 1996
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