http://www.china.org.cn/china/2016-07/29/content_38982086.htm
Beijing is offering cash rewards as an incentive for chemical plants that leave the nation's capital. Eighty hazardous chemical plants should be out of the city by 2018, the local work safety watchdog said on Thursday.
The watchdog said it had asked plants to relocate voluntarily and offered a cash bonus, calculated on a set of criteria including the size of the facility, number of employees, tax contributions, safety record and production process. Early applicants will get extra rewards.
The watchdog aims to wave goodbye to 60 plants this year and 20 more between 2017 and 2018. It did not disclose the exact amount of rewards it would pay out.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Gravis on Saturday July 30 2016, @02:20AM
the only thing they are doing is moving the problem of unenforced environmental regulation to other cities. if they actually wanted to improve the city, they would force every plant to strictly comply with existing environmental regulation or be shut down until they do. the problem with doing that is they think it interferes with their goal of economic dominance. the irony is if they actually made their various plants environmentally sound, they wouldn't have to try to change the perception that they are polluting like crazy.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday July 30 2016, @02:31AM
the only thing they are doing is moving the problem of unenforced environmental regulation to other cities.
"Mission accomplished" as far as Beijing is concerned. There's also the matter of zoning and tax revenue. I bet the city planners think they can put something much better in that space as replacement.