The prosperous province of Guangdong has raised its threshold for manufacturing companies to be established in its rural areas.

"The companies which fail to meet the State's environmental protection requirements will not be allowed to operate in the province. This is especially applicable to its northern, western and eastern areas, where economic growth lags far behind the Pearl River Delta and the neighbouring Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions," said Guangdong Governor Huang Huahua.

Huang urged authorities in the province's rural areas to say no to companies that pollute and destroy local environment and ecology.

The move is aimed at protecting the environment and ecology in the rural areas from being polluted, Huang told a recent work conference in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong Province.

"Those who shift the polluting projects to the province's western, eastern and northern areas will be seriously punished," Huang said.

And the provincial government has issued an emergent notice to ban polluting manufacturing firms in the Pearl River Delta from being transferred to the province's western, eastern and northern areas.

The notice requires local governments in rural areas to do what they can to prevent local water resources from being polluted.

Guangdong's rural areas in the northern, western and eastern parts of the province are usually the sources of drinking water for cities in the Pearl River Delta areas and the neighbouring Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions, the notice said.

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