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Green projects: Shipping containers are stacked on a dock at a port in Nantong. Authorities have launched ecological restoration projects with 203 polluting factories closed since 2016. — AP

BEIJING: Wang Liang, who has lived near Yuzui Park in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, for decades, used to loathe summer, when he largely avoided visiting the park.

With a name that translates as “fish mouth park”, the place used to be the site of a fish market selling fresh aquatic produce from Taihu Lake in the southern part of the Yangtze River Delta. However, the smell from the market was particularly bad in summer.