NANCHANG, October 9 (Xinhuanet) -- East China's Jiangxi province
has begun to build an emergency monitoring and rapid reaction
center for environmental disasters. Officials from Jiangxi Provincial Environmental Protection
Bureau say the computerized system will offer assistance to
relevant departments and personnel to enable them to control
damage in the shortest possible time. Xiong Yu, chief engineer of Jiangxi Provincial Monitoring
Center, said Jiangxi has been hit by several major environmental
disasters in the last few years including the leakage of chlorine
in 1994 at Ganjiang Chemical Plant. In 1997, a major leakage of chlorine from Jiujiang Chemical
Plant caused air and soil pollution, he said. Enditem
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