Wall Street Journal: A number of episodes in recent months have added to growing public concern over the environment in China, including severe air pollution in January in Beijing and several other places, as well as the discovery of cadmium-tainted rice in supplies in the southern province of Guangdong. Environmental degradation is now seen as a threat to China's social instability and a key component in economic reform.
In the economic and political roadmap released Friday, China said it wants to introduce a system...