环境保护成为两会关注热点

 　　Political Advisors¹ Hand Proposals on Environment Protection

　　Environmental protection is going to be one of the focus-areas for both the political advisory² body and the lawmakers on the National People's Congress.

　　Wan³ Jie, a member of the national committee of CPPCC, has been collecting data from pollution sources, including a sewage treatment plant in Beijing's Shunyi District.

　　He said he's going to offer lawmakers suggestions about real-time environmental monitoring.

　　环境保护成为两会关注热点

　　"The heavy polluters do not discharge polluted water or air all time. They do it intermittently⁴. So if there is no real-time monitoring system, the government will have less supervision⁵ over these companies."

　　While the Chinese government has a phone application to map pollution, many regions still don't have real-time data about the flow of polluted air or water.

　　Meanwhile, Liu Weichang, another member of the CPPCC from the city of Handan in Hebei, says he plans to submit a proposal promoting the use of clean coal technology in China's rural areas.

　　"We should also focus on the daily coal burning which people use to keep warm during the winter in the countryside. According to the results of a survey I conducted, air pollution in these areas could be cut by around 70-percent if people start to use clean coal."

　　The province of Hebei has nearly 16 million families living in the rural areas.

　　They burn around 40 million tons of coal every year, which pumps out millions of tons of dust, as well as sulfur⁶ and carbon dioxide.

　　Right now over 400 proposals have already been submitted to this year's CPPCC agenda, covering a wide range of areas from environmental protection, to economic development to the rule of law, and beyond.

　　This year's "Lianghui," or "two-sessions," officially begins this Tuesday.

　　For CRI, this is Guo Yan.

1 advisors   

n.顾问，劝告者( advisor的名词复数 )；（指导大学新生学科问题等的）指导教授

参考例句：

• The governors felt that they were being strung along by their advisors. 地方长官感到他们一直在受顾问们的愚弄。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• We will consult together with advisors about her education. 我们将一起和专家商议她的教育事宜。 来自互联网

2 advisory   

adj.劝告的，忠告的，顾问的，提供咨询

参考例句：

• I have worked in an advisory capacity with many hospitals.我曾在多家医院做过顾问工作。
• He was appointed to the advisory committee last month.他上个月获任命为顾问委员会委员。

3 wan   

(wide area network)广域网

参考例句：

• The shared connection can be an Ethernet,wireless LAN,or wireless WAN connection.提供共享的网络连接可以是以太网、无线局域网或无线广域网。

4 intermittently   

adv.间歇地；断断续续

参考例句：

• Winston could not intermittently remember why the pain was happening. 温斯顿只能断断续续地记得为什么这么痛。 来自英汉文学
• The resin moves intermittently down and out of the bed. 树脂周期地向下移动和移出床层。 来自辞典例句

5 supervision   

n.监督，管理

参考例句：

• The work was done under my supervision.这项工作是在我的监督之下完成的。
• The old man's will was executed under the personal supervision of the lawyer.老人的遗嘱是在律师的亲自监督下执行的。

6 sulfur   

n.硫，硫磺（=sulphur）

参考例句：

• Sulfur emissions from steel mills become acid rain.炼钢厂排放出的硫形成了酸雨。
• Burning may produce sulfur oxides.燃烧可能会产生硫氧化物。