(BEIJING, Oct. 18) -- In an on-site visit to the Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau on Wednesday, Beijing's top leader Liu Qi called for more efforts to tackle the bottleneck of the air pollution in the capital city.

After debriefing a report on the generation of air pollutants and regional pollution control, Liu noted that the environmental protection need to be seen as an important strategic task for the construction of the socialist harmonious society, a major measure to carry out the scientific development outlook, a groundbreaking program to construct a livable city and a key project to stage a high-level Olympics with distinguishing features, which will help to showcase a good image of the city and the nation with the achievements of environmental construction.

He listed the pollution from dust-raising at construction sites, motor vehicle emissions and coal smoke as major control targets and urged all departments of the municipal government to draw up new plans with innovative ideas, put in more funds, take economic, legal and necessary administrative measures, mobilize the talent of experts and the technical-scientific personnel as well as the resources of the communities at large.

"The environmental renovation is a long-term task and we need to uphold the spirit of the Long March of the Red Army to overcome every difficulty," said Liu, who is also secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and president of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG).