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February 9th, 2010:

Air quality of major Chinese cities

Feb 9th, 2010
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Xinhua,

9, February, 2010

Report on the quality of air in 47 major Chinese cities (12:00 Feb.8 to 12:00 Feb.9, Beijing Time), released by the China Environmental Monitoring Center:

City

Major Pollutant

Air Quality Level

Beijing

particulate matter

III1

Tianjin

sulfur dioxide

II

Shijiazhuang

particulate matter

II

Qinhuangdao

sulfur dioxide

II

Taiyuan

sulfur dioxide

II

Hohhot

sulfur dioxide

II

Shenyang

sulfur dioxide

II

Dalian

sulfur dioxide

II

Changchun

particulate matter

II

Harbin

particulate matter

II

Shanghai

——–

I

Nanjing

particulate matter

II

Suzhou

particulate matter

II

Nantong

particulate matter

II

Lianyungang

particulate matter

II

Hangzhou

particulate matter

II

Ningbo

——–

I

Wenzhou

particulate matter

II

Hefei

particulate matter

II

Fuzhou

particulate matter

II

Xiamen

——–

I

Nanchang

particulate matter

II

Jinan

particulate matter

III1

Qingdao

particulate matter

II

Yantai

——–

I

Zhengzhou

particulate matter

II

Wuhan

particulate matter

II

Changsha

particulate matter

II

Guangzhou

——–

I

Shenzhen

——–

I

Zhuhai

——–

I

Shantou

——–

I

Zhanjiang

——–

I

Nanning

——–

I

Guilin

sulfur dioxide

II

Beihai

particulate matter

II

Haikou

——–

I

Chongqing

particulate matter

II

Chengdu

particulate matter

III1

Guiyang

sulfur dioxide

II

Kunming

sulfur dioxide

II

Lhasa

particulate matter

II

Xi’an

particulate matter

III1

Lanzhou

particulate matter

III1

Xining

particulate matter

III1

Yinchuan

sulfur dioxide

II

Urumqi

particulate matter

III1

The center classifies air quality in China’s urban areas into five levels: level I or excellent (pollution reading: not exceeding 50), level II or fairly good (pollution reading: 51 to 100), level III or slightly polluted (pollution reading: 101 to 200), level IV or poor (pollution reading: 201 to 300), and level V or hazardous (pollution reading: over 301).

The 47 cities monitored by the center include the four municipalities of Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Chongqing, provincial (or autonomous regional) capitals, and major cities in economically developed coastal areas, and tourist attractions.

China’s pollution will peak when GDP per capita reaches $3,000

Feb 9th, 2010
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People’s Daily Online

9th Feb, 2010

Pollution in China will likely reach its peak when GDP per capita amounts to 3,000 U.S. dollars, said Zhang Lijun, vice minister of the Ministry of Environmental Protection at a press conference on Tuesday.

The report on the first national census on pollution sources was issued by three ministries including the Ministry of Environmental Protection Tuesday morning.

5.93 million Censuses have been counted covering industrial sources, agricultural sources, life sources and centralized pollution control facilities, providing government with 1.1 billion basic facts, according to the report.

According to experiences from the developed countries, pollution will reach peak when a nation’s GDP per capita amounts to 3,000 U.S. dollars and will drop thereafter.

Zhang said China has always implemented a plan controlling the total amount of major pollutants and has expanded the number of major pollutants types counted so as to probably achieve the co-ordination between economic development and environmental protection before the GDP per capital reaches 3,000 U.S. dollars. In other words, pollution in China will reach peak before GDP per capital amounts to 3,000 U.S. dollars and the environment will gradually improve as a result.