Beijing willing to sacrifice logging industry
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02/12/1997
Beijing would rather sacrifice its timber industry than allow rampant logging to continue, Premier Zhu Rongji said. On an inspection tour of the flood-hit city of Harbin, Heilongjiang province, the Premier told cadres they must follow Beijing's order to stop logging and find new jobs for the unemployed. Beijing last week announced a similar logging ban in the upper Yangtze River.