Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang Wednesday chaired a meeting on the national pollution survey and urged more efforts to protect environment.

China launched its latest nationwide pollution survey at the end of 2006.

Li said further work should be done to boost environmental protection and tackle serious pollution problems to boost sustainable development in China and improve people's living standards and quality.

He said more efforts should be made to treat key polluters and get rid of potential pollution dangers in a bid to ensure public health.

He said infrastructure construction on environmental protection should be sped up including urban waste water treatment plants, pollution treatment equipment in enterprises and environmental monitoring equipment.

Besides "treatment", "prevention" was also indispensable and more efforts should be made to adjust industrial structure and upgrade industries to eliminate backward production capacity , Li said.

More efforts should be made to boost circular economy, green economy and environmental protection sectors, Li said.

(Xinhua News Agency August 28, 2009)