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MEP steps up its game

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Keeping cadres personally accountable. That’s how rules get enforced. And it’s how China’s environmental regulator (MEP) is stepping up its game. So far in 2017 (SCMP):

“Some 18,000 polluting companies have been punished, fines of RMB 870 million issued and more than 12,000 officials disciplin...