Environmental hotline announced

People with complaints about environmental pollution will be able to pass on their concerns directly to government when the Ministry of Environmental Protection opens a tip hotline today, World Environment Day.

The ministry said yesterday that the hotline, 010-12369, will take calls about emergency environment issues, cross-provincial pollution and other environmental concerns that should be directly dealt with by the ministry. If local environment authorities fail to solve existing environmental problems, people are also entitled to complain through this hotline, the ministry said.

Xinhua