BEIJING - China has now established supervision commissions in every county, city and province as the last remaining county, Daxin in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, set up its supervision commission on Sunday.The new supervision commissions nationwide incorporate existing supervisory, corruption prevention and control agencies within the government and procuratorates and are in charge of three major duties: supervision, investigation and punishment.The new system expands the scope of inspection to ensure that all public servants who exercise public power are subject to supervision.In January 2017, China started a pilot program for the new supervision system in Beijing, as well as Shanxi and Zhejiang provinces.The number of people under supervision rose from 210,000 to 997,000 in Beijing, from 785,000 to 1.315 million in Shanxi, and from 383,000 to 701,000 in Zhejiang.Since the end of October, supervision commissions have been set up by the People's Congress at the provincial, city and county levels across the country.A supervision law is expected to pass, and the national supervision commission is expected to be formed at the first session of the 13th National People's Congress, scheduled to open on March 5. custom bar braceletcustom sports braceletscustom logo wristbandsde securite pour personne ageeembossed wristbandscolorfilled wristbandsembossed printed wristbandsdual layer wristbands
[Photo/CCTV news app] The Jiangsu provincial government has won a lawsuit against a company that dumped more than 100 metric tons of waste lye into water bodies in the province, a court announced on Monday. The province will be compensated almost 55 million yuan ($8 million). The lawsuit was the first in China to be filed by a provincial government against a company for environmental damage. When the verdict was announced, the defendant, Anhui Haide Co, was absent, even though it had received a subpoena from the Taizhou Intermediate People's Court in Jiangsu. The court said that Yang Feng, head of Haide's sales and marketing, transferred about 102 metric tons of waste lye in May 2014 to people who were unqualified to dispose of hazardous waste. The lye was dumped into the Yangtze River and Xintongyang canal on several occasions, resulting in severe pollution and leading to the suspension of drinking water supplies for many hours in urban areas of Jingjiang and Xinghua, which Taizhou administers. The dumping occurred during the annual fishing moratorium and led to great losses to the fishing resources of the Yangtze as well as harm to the ecological functions of the river, the court said. According to the court, about 36 million yuan of the compensation is for environmental restoration and about 18 million yuan is to compensate for the ecological functions damaged by the dumping. The company also had to pay 260,000 yuan to cover the compensation assessment. The case was first heard in court on May 29. The company argued that Yang handed the waste lye to others for disposal without the company's authorization, so the company should not bear the legal consequences. That argument, however, was rejected by the court. As head of sales and marketing, Yang represents the company, the court said. The company paid Yang for the disposal, and he disposed of the waste for the company and was seeking benefits for the company in doing so, the court said. The company also argued that the water bodies where the wastewater was dumped could purify themselves and there was no need to do any environmental remediation. However, local environmental authorities tested and found several harmful organic compounds in the affected water bodies. Haide can appeal to the Jiangsu High People's Court within 15 days of the verdict taking effect. Otherwise, it should transfer the compensation to a bank account for public interest litigation in Taizhou city within 60 days, the court said. Nineteen people involved in the illegal dumping have already been sentenced to prison terms of one to six years. Yang Feng was sentenced to prison for 51 months and fined 30,000 yuan.
