A city in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Monday razed 20 chimneys belonging to 12 highly-polluting companies.The shutdown of the outdated capacity in Fukang City of Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture will cut industrial pollutants by 4,540 tonnes a ......
According to the report, the first 74 cities implementing new air quality standards ensured an average decrease in PM2.5 concentrations of 14.1 percent compared to 2014. Out of 338 prefecture cities, 73 cities (21.6 percent) met their targets. Written by the Ministry of......
More than 2,000 industrial firms will have to move out of a Beijing district as the authorities push to improve the natural environment for what will be the city's new administrative center, Tongzhou District announced Wednesday.Industrial campuses, processing plants and......
Beijing included smog as a meteorological disaster in its draft of a new prevention and control regulation that was under review on Thursday.Listing smog in the regulation would require the capital to improve urban planning - including better design of green zones and co......
The air quality prevention and control group for the Jing-jin-ji region and its surrounding areas held its sixth group meeting on May 20. Vice premier of the State Council Zhang Gaoli called for industrial pollution sources to meet the emissions discharge goal, implement......
The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and seven other government departments jointly announced a policy document Guidance Suggestions to Promote Electricity Power Replacement (《关于推进电能替代的指导意见》). Heating, production, transportation, and electr......
Beijing's plan to construct ventilation corridors will not involve the large-scale demolition of houses, nor will it spread pollution to neighboring provinces, according to a planner involved with the project.The municipal government announced in February that it would b......
Efforts to focus on how local authorities live up to promises and tackle the scourge of pollutionEnvironmental inspections by the central government have been given more power and increased importance, and will include all provinces, according to a Chinese environmental ......
Over 80 percent of the world's city dwellers breathe poor quality air, increasing their risk of lung cancer and other life-threatening diseases, a new World Health Organization (WHO) report warned Thursday.Urban residents in poor countries are by far the worst affected, ......
Air quality in Beijing has improved in the first four months of this year, with the density of a major pollutant particles down more than 20 percent year on year, local environment watchdog said on Tuesday.The density of PM2.5, particulate matter measuring less than 2.5 ......
