我国将严查环保数据造假 建立相关惩治机制

Chinese environment authorities will establish a system to prevent and punish environmental data fraud, according to an official with the Ministry of Environmental Protection.

环境保护部一名官员近日表示，我国环境部门将建立环境数据弄虚作假防范和惩治机制。

Since environmental monitoring is an important part of technical support in environment management, the ministry will give administrative penalties to people involved in environmental data fraud and transfer them to judicial organs for investigation if the case constitutes a crime, said the official.

该官员称，环境监测是环境管理的技术支撑中的重要部分，环保部将对环境数据造假的涉事人员给予行政处罚，如构成犯罪还会将其移送司法机关。

Xi'an Intermediate People's Court in Shaanxi sentenced seven people, including the heads of two environmental protection branches, to imprisonments of over one year for falsifying air quality monitoring data.

日前，包括两名环保局局长在内的7人，因伪造空气质量监测数据，被陕西省西安市中级人民法院判处一年以上监禁。

The court said they interfered in the data collection of air quality, and used cotton to fill sampling instruments to lower pollution data.

法院方面称，他们干扰空气质量数据采集，用棉纱堵住采样器以降低污染数据。