Air pollution inspectors find 1,100 violations during holiday

The top environmental watchdog's efforts to control air pollution continued during the weeklong National Day break, with officers uncovering more than 1,100 violations in the two regions with the worst air quality in the first five days of the holiday.

Officers from 290 teams, each made up of three or four members, continued inspections in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei cluster and the Fenhe and Weihe river plains during the holiday, which started on Oct 1.

The average concentration of PM2.5, a major atmospheric pollutant, on the Fenhe and Weihe river plains is the second-worst in the country, exceeded only by that in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.