Nearly every industrial sector that, according to the stimulus package, deserves direct and immediate government support is energy-intensive and polluting (cement and steel, for example) or heavily managed by the state sector, and therefore missing incentives to balance growth with environmental protection (as is the case with the oil industry). Political lobbies that oversee these sectors and overlap with certain factions in the Party are simply too powerful for nascent interests in society and the bureaucracy to parry.
在中国新推出的刺激经济一揽子计划中，还有更坏的讯息。根据中国新的刺激经济一揽子计划，几乎每一个应该得到直接和快速的政府支持的工业部门，都是能源密集型和污染型的（例如，水泥和钢铁），或者是由国有企业严格控制的，因此，它们失去了平衡经济增长和环境保护的动力（像中国石油工业的情形那样）。对中国社会中的新生利益群体和官僚来说，控制这些部门以及和中国共产党中的某些派别重合的政治游说力量，已经强大到了他们无力抵挡的地步。