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" FIGHTING POLLUTION IN CHINA FIGHTING POLLUTION IN CHINA   By   DR. PARVEZ HASSAN,   LL. B. (Pb.), LL. M. (Yale), S. J. D. (Harvard) Advocate, Lahore High Court and Supreme Court of Pakistan   The world Environment Day was observed with unusual fervour all over the world this year on 5th June. Mr. Tolba, the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Program, had given a call to world leaders to highlight their support for a clean and healthy environment for the globe by planting "Trees of Peace". This way they would emphasize the increa singly acknowledged inter‑relationship between a healthy environmental eco‑system management and world peace.   The People's Republic of China was one of the many countries that responded to this call. Vice‑Premier Li Peng, Mr. Ye Rutang, Minister of Urban and Rural Reconstruction and Environmental Protection, Madam Kang Ke Qing, Vice‑Chairman, Standing Committee, National People's Congress (widow of the C‑in‑C of the People's Liberation Army, Zhu De who, with Chairman Mao Tse‑Tung, led the Cdmmunist Revolution in 1949), and several other top leaders of China assembled to plant a Tree of Peace in Beijing on 5th June. Invited to this ceremony were representatives from the Untied Nations, UNEP and an ESCAP Environmental Mission. The ESCAP Mission comprised of five environmentalists drawn from the Asian and Pacific Region. It was led by Dr. Kazi F. Jalal Bangladesh), who ably heads the Environment Department of ESCAP, Mr. Philip Mathews, Chairman of the Malaysian Forum of Environmental Journalists, Mr. Surin Setamanit, Director of the Institute of Environment Research of Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, Mr. Chatichal Sarkar, a renowned…