China’s environment ministry has criticised an application by BMW to double capacity at a joint venture factory in the country, citing insufficient investment in environmental protection measures at the facility, write Tom Mitchell and Henry Foy.
While the roadblock may prove temporary, the environment ministry’s willingness to delay a flagship investment project by one of the world’s leading luxury carmakers highlights a debate over the real costs of China’s rapid economic growth over the past three decades.
“Drinking polluted water while driving BMW sedans is certainly not the type of industrialisation we are looking forward to,” China’s environment minister, Zhou Shengxian, said yesterday in an interview with the People’s Daily.
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