Air cleaning effort pays off
By Zheng Jinran | China Daily | Updated: 2015-10-16 07:52
Most cities with monitoring ability didn't meet standards, but progress is clear
About 80 percent of China's 367 cities with real-time air quality monitoring capabilities failed to reach national standards on small-particle pollution in the first three quarters of the year, a report by the global environmental organization Greenpeace said on Thursday. Even so, most of the cities have reduced the concentration of fine matter.
The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, which has seen frequent smog since 2013, ramped up efforts this year to rein in emissions and brought a clear reduction in PM2.5 pollution in the first nine months.
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