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14:13, January 16, 2009 |
The China Public Environmental Protection Index (2008) drawn up by the China Environmental Culture Promotion Association was released on January 15 in Beijing. It shows that environmental pollution is still a hot topic most concerned by public and ranked third on China's 2008 survey on social hot topics, following closely behind "commodity prices" and "food safety."
The percentage of public attention paid to environmental pollution was 37.7%, ranking in top three for the third consecutive time since the survey was launched. The issue's high ranking indicates that environmental pollution has become one of the issues the public is most concerned about.
The survey shows that the score for public awareness on environmental protection was 44.5 points, the score for environmentally friendly behavior was 37.0 points and the degree of satisfaction in environmental protection scored 45.1 points. Compared with the previous year, all three figures have increased to a certain extent, and public awareness on environmental protection saw the largest increase, of 2.4 percentage points.
The degree of satisfaction in environmental protection among the people of Beijing increased rapidly after the Olympics. But, generally speaking, it is currently still at a comparatively low level. The degree of participation in environmental protection is also not high and the degree of satisfaction in environmental protection is far from ideal.
To make environmental protection become a real conscious public behavior will continue to be an arduous task and there is still a long way to go.
By People's Daily Online
http://paper.people.com.cn/rmrb/html/2009-01/16/content_177451.htm
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