WITH THE BEGINNING OF A NEW FINANCIAL YEAR in March, one after another company listed in the A-share market have published their annual reports. However, a survey by People's Daily found that the majority of the companies did not include environmental information in their reports. Beijing News comments:

Of all the companies in China, those listed in the A-share market are perhaps the most transparent, because they have to publish their information to shareholders. However, even they fail to provide information on their environmental protection efforts in their annual reports, and the situation with other enterprises is even worse.

How has that happened?