China will from late 2016 ban industrial plants, paper mills and refineries that pollute the country’s water supplies...Under the long-awaited ‘Ten-point water plan’, China’s cabinet said it aims to lift the share of good quality water...to more than 70% by 2020 in seven major river basins including the Yellow and Yangtze. The plan also wants at least 93% of urban drinking water supply to be at least 'level three' (i.e a drinkable standard) by the end of the decade...The action plan will pay particular attention to small-scale paper factories, leather, printing and dying, coking, oil refineries, electronic plating, and pharmaceutical factories...Around 60% of China’s underground water supplies are said to be polluted, while much of the drinking water in rural areas is unfit for human consumption because of pollution from fertilisers, pesticides and industrial activity... [refers to China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC)]