"Many places still rely on the wind to remove rubbish and the sun to vaporize sewage."

Zhou Shengxian, minister of environmental protection, said on Tuesday while delivering a report on environmental protection in Beijing. China's 600,000 rural villages produce more than 9 billion tons of domestic sewage and 280 million tons of domestic rubbish every year, but most of them lack basic environmental protection facilities.

(China Daily USA 07/11/2013 page3)