{"id":869529,"date":"2026-08-26T22:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/869529\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T22:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:26:11","slug":"china-makes-officials-liable-for-environmental-damage-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/869529\/","title":{"rendered":"China makes officials liable for environmental damage for life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China has reminded its officials of their lifelong responsibility for <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/china-pollution?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">serious environmental damage<\/a> on their watch, tying green efforts more closely to performance assessments in the country\u2019s push for higher-quality growth.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The conditions and potential disciplinary action were outlined in revised rules released on Tuesday by the Communist Party and the State Council, China\u2019s cabinet.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Under the rules, officials will be held to account for serious environmental damage \u201cregardless of whether they have been transferred, reassigned, promoted, left their jobs or retired\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Central Organisation Department, the party body overseeing personnel appointments, said that despite \u201chistoric\u201d and wide-ranging changes, underlying and longer-term pressures on environmental protection had yet to be fundamentally eased.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The changes are linked to President Xi Jinping\u2019s \u201cnew development philosophy\u201d and are part of China\u2019s push to build what it describes as an \u201cecological civilisation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Both concepts feed into an environmental protection policy framework meant to shift China away from a growth model focused on quantity towards one that prioritises quality and sustainability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China has reminded its officials of their lifelong responsibility for serious environmental damage on their watch, tying green&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,512,7764,438159,75,26008,8662,17119,438160,128,82932,9731],"class_list":["post-869529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-china","tag-communist-party","tag-ecological-civilisation","tag-environment","tag-environmental-damage","tag-environmental-protection","tag-gdp","tag-politburo-standing-committee","tag-science","tag-state-council","tag-xi-jinping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}