SEPA's message is loud and clear

Part of my career was spent in financial services. I was involved in the listing of the first batch of Chinese companies on the New York Stock Exchange, followed by many H-share and B-share companies in Hong Kong. For a while I was also an analyst.

But since I returned to work on the Chinese mainland, I have gradually developed a liking for one particular government agency. It is the State Environmental Protection Administration, or SEPA.

It is not usually considered to be an economic department of the government, although here in China Daily, we run a special Energy and Environment supplement every week, after merging the two operations into one.