Beijing: In a major move to tackle the alarming level of pollution, China has decided to shut down 17,000 polluting industries.
The move came after a pollution discharge inspection was conducted for 1.41 million companies from January to September 2015.
Apart from this, Ministry of Environment Protection said that another 28,600 firms were ordered to suspend their operations.
Among the violators, 46,800 enterprises were found to have discharged pollutants and 63,700 were involved in illegal construction projects, the ministry said.
In November, the ministry dispatched inspection teams to 504 enterprises across the country, including Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Guangdong and Xinjiang.
During the inspection, violations were found in urban treatment of dust, central heating and oil vapor recovery in petrol stations, the ministry said.
