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Supervise Chinese environment policy

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China's latest five-year plan shifts its environmental law away from a pollution-control system and towards one that manages environmental quality (see Nature 531, 524–525; 2016). Regional efforts will now be subject to greater oversight to ensure that improvements are implemented across the country and to prevent local corruption.

Under the plan, provincial environmental-protection departments will be responsible for unifying local monitoring and inspection programmes and for eliminating protectionism in local governments (see B. Zhang and C. Cao Nature 517, 433–434; 2015). China's Ministry of Environmental Protection has already established separate environmental-management departments for water, air and soil.

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