SUBSTANTIAL efforts to cut industrial pollution in southwest Chinas Tibet Autonomous Region in the past five years have paid off.
Fifteen key industrial enterprises, including a geothermo-power plant, the Lhasa brewery and a number of cement works which are said to release over 80% of the liquid waste and gas in the region, had met the standards for discharging pollutants set by the autonomous region by 2002, according to Chen Xianshun, director of the regional environmental protection bureau.