The environmental protection department of Inner Mongolia reports that it started a "2016 Inner Mongolia Fights against Pollution" in mid-March, to prevent environmental pollution and reduce the damage already done to the ecology and environment, over the next 6 months, as the region's first, large-scale effort of its kind.

It mainly involves industrial checks of coking, papermaking, heavy non-ferrous metals, mining, and dressing and includes bans on small paper mills and tanning and pesticide factories, manufacturers of active ingredients, non-ferrous metal smelters, chemical raw materials near the Yellow River area, and enterprises that could pose a danger to drinking water sources.

There will also be a crackdown on illegal discharging or dumping, and the disposal of radioactive waste, and waste containing infectious disease pathogens, or toxic substances in drinking water source areas and nature reserves.