Reuters: China has met its 2014 targets for air and water pollution control, the official news agency Xinhua said on Thursday.
The environmental protection minister, Zhou Shengxian, told an annual government meeting that authorities last year banned 7 million high-emission vehicles from the road, shut down 50,000 coal-fired furnaces, installed denitrification and desulfurisation equipment in power plants and factories, and added new sewage treatment plants, Xinhua said.
Zhou said the annual targets...