黄河的污染其实更严重

Actually, the pollution in the Yellow River is worse than that in the Yangtze River.

还中国一片清山绿水

We expect the return of green mountains and clear water to China.

对于污染企业，没有强硬的法制或者诱人的利益，所有环保的警示和宣传都无济于事。永远不能靠企业家的所谓社会责任感或者道德良心，根本也靠不住。在现阶段，环保和企业的短期利益还是比较矛盾的，所以利诱就算了。因此我建议用韩非子的办法来搞环保，宁愿狠毒一点遭今人抱怨，也不能姑息纵容让后人唾骂。

To companies that pollute, talk of environmental protection and propaganda are useless without a tough law enforcement or tempting lure. It is not reliable to depend on the morality and conscience of entrepreneurs or their responsibility towards society to protect environment. At the present, environmental protection and the short-term interest of companies are in conflict. Hence, I strongly recommend that it would be better to use the method of the ancient philosopher Han Feizi to protect environment, that is to say, using very tough punishment to deal with polluters. I would rather be criticized by offspring than tolerant of current bad deeds by the polluters.

我们的环境影响评估法已经出台数年，环保风暴也已起了数次，为什么这样的劣性规划不能在前期被制止呢？为什么法律的尊严没有办法维护，为什么大多数人的生存利益总是博弈不过政府的发展利益和企业的经济利益呢？

Our laws and regulations on environmental assessment have been released for many years. And the environmental movement has also experienced several peaks. But why these poor plannings can't be stopped in their early stages? Why laws and regulations cannot be fully enforced? Why the survival needs of the majority are always less powerful than the development interests of the government and the pecuniary interests in the business world?

中国的环境问题背后涉及到多方面的问题，地方经济的发展，国家的产业政策，环保监督管理执法能力，及很多中国化的错综复杂的关系，中石油中石化的很多项目都是沿江沿河建设，可是污染整治的对象却是一些小企业，私企。要想根除中国特色的环境问题，光是借鉴国外的经验是不够，国情不一样，在别处行的通的，在中国未必走的通，还需要很多的努力，很多的经验，很强的法制，对发展中国家来说其实是相当不容易的。

In the background to China's environmental problems are problems in many areas, such as regional economic development, national industrial policy, the ability to legally enforce environmental management and supervision, and complex, Chinese-style networks of relations. Many Sinopec and CNPC projects are constructed along rivers*, but it is small companies and private enterprises that are on the receiving end of pollution measures.
If we are to eradicate environmental problems with Chinese characteristics, it is not enough merely to refer to experiences of other countries, as the situation in each country is different; what works elsewhere may not work in China. What is needed is a lot of effort, a lot of experience, and strong legal controls, which, in a developing country, is not easy.

*Both CNPC, and Sinopec's parent company, are state run enterprises

Translated E Macdonald