Mayor: Growth ambitions balanced with ecology

City vows to check pollution from industrial projects

In the face of concerns about the effects of accelerated growth on ocean ecology in the port city of Zhanjiang, Guangdong province, the city's mayor remains confident and calm.

Fielding questions from the press in Beijing, Mayor Wang Zhongbing reassured the public that the city's clean air and water will not be compromised by its plans to develop three industrial complexes for the large-scale production of steel, petrochemicals and paper by around 2016.