The locality feature of the environment and environmental problems puts the primary responsibility for environmental protection on the local environmental administration.

环境及环境问题的地方性特点决定了地方环境行政在环境保护中的第一性责任。

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But much of this is expected to be given to other agencies (the State Forestry Administration, for example, deals with stemming the spread of deserts) or to the local environmental-protection bureaus, which, being answerable to local governments, are crippled by conflicts of interest.

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