The wind finally arrived, on the eve before the opening of the annual top legislative session in Beijing, and cleared the heavy smog that had blanketed the capital for days.Five-Year Plan to share fruits of developmentMany officials breathed a sigh of relief, as a clear ......
China will intensify its efforts to reduce pollution, Premier Li Keqiang said in his annual Government Work Report on Saturday, citing as an example ambitious targets in fighting smog that will increase the number of days with good air quality."Pollution control and envi......
A fall in China’s coal consumption for two years in a row has raised hopes that the country has already experienced a peak in demand for coal, the major cause of smog and climate change.Consumption of coal fell 3.7% year-on-year in 2015, following a 2.9% drop in in 2014,......
Jiang Nan, an engineer at the Beijing Municipal Environmental Monitoring Center, will become busier after the capital doubles the number of monitoring stations in a bid to improve the network and step up efforts to curb pollution.Beijing currently has 35 air quality moni......
On March 3rd, MEP confirmed the decision of setting up three new departments (Water, Air, and Soil) to replace the current Pollution Prevention and Control Department and Total Pollution Control Department. It will be vital for implementing the central government’s requi......
According to the Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau, Beijing is revising its Air Pollution Emergency Plan. The new plan will consider geographical features of different districts, and take emergency responses accordingly. During heavily polluted days, vehi......
BEIJING, March 1 (Wang Kunting, reporter of the China Environment News) Mr. Chen Jining, Minister of the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP), met with Mr. Eric Heitz, Co-founder and CEO of the Energy Foundation (EF), in Beijing today, when both sides exchanged vie......
Apart from a few pristine summer days last year when PM2.5 levels in Shanghai fell below 25, our city's air quality tends not to be very breathable. This past winter, for example, saw frequent AQI (Air Quality Index) levels hitting over 300 along with multiple Orange Ale......
China's Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the most polluted area in China, may solve the air pollution problems in 2030, but only with the joint effort and full support from all cities and industries, said a report released on Tuesday.Experts were optimistic about achieving ......
BEIJING, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- Beijing and its neighboring cities will start using uniform criteria when they issue pollution alerts by the end of March, the capital's environmental protection bureau said on Sunday.Alerts will be categorized by Air Quality Index (AQI) read......
