BEIJING, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- Water quality in the Bohai Sea in China has witnessed great improvement as progress is being made in pollution treatment, an environmental official said on Friday.
In the first and second quarter of this year, the proportion of first-class and second-class water quality sites in the Bohai Sea reached 79.4 percent and 81.6 percent, up by 9.4 percentage points and 2.2 percentage points respectively from a year ago, Huo Chuanlin, an official with the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, told a press conference.