Province to consider law on regulating river chiefs
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A DRAFT regulation on river chiefs was submitted to the Standing Committee of the People’s Congress of east China’s Zhejiang Province yesterday for deliberation.
It will be China’s first local law at provincial level to regulate rights and responsibilities of river chiefs in cleaning up and protecting water resources, the law committee of the congress said.
Zhejiang began testing the system in 2008 and expanded it across the province from 2013.
It has 61,000 river chiefs at various levels.
“It is necessary to inscribe recent experiences and policies into law,” said Ding Zunian, a member of the law committee.
Ding said river chiefs above county level are also responsible for supervising government officials.
Moreover, river chiefs are supervised by governments above county level.
China first appointed local government officials as river chiefs in 2007 to address a blue algae outbreak in Taihu Lake in east China’s Jiangsu Province.
The practice was later adopted in several regions rich in water resources to ensure enforcement of environmental policies and enhance coordination.
Government officials are eligible for the river chief position at provincial, city, county and township levels, and heads of provincial regions are responsible for all rivers and lakes in the region.
The responsibilities of the river chiefs include water resource protection, pollution prevention and control, and ecological restoration.
Their performance is assessed and they are held accountable for any environmental damage in the bodies of water they oversee.
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