The governmental department in charge of the environment, the State Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA), might get promoted into a ministry during the upcoming session of the National People's Congress, reports AP.
That might help to give the rather powerless department a bit more strength in its fight against pollution, but the effect seems to be rather symbolic, like most of China's struggle to fight off the environmental decay.
In China ministries cannot command as much power as they would in other countries, where ministers are often involved in the day-to-day business of running in country. In China ministries work on a much lower level with limited influence on the real decision making. Power remains based on the state-owned companies or other institutions they would have under their wings, and unlike for example the Ministry of Information Industry (China Mobile) SEPA has rather little powerful backers.
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