BEIJING --- Fu Zhiqiang, a middle-aged resident of Luzhou, Sichuan province, has made a habit of taking a walk every dayfor more than a decadealong the bank of the Yangtze River. "To keep fit, I would walk after dinner if it wasn't raining," he said. "I have seen the improvement in the quality of water in the river in the past two years." Like Fu, all the roughly 5 million residents of Luzhou, in the upper reaches of the Yangtze, drink river water. More than two years ago, the river was significantly polluted. Many illegal wharves that received building materials, such as sand and rocks, littered the shoreline and lowered the water quality. The change for the better came when the c...
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