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More smog predicted for capital region
More smog may hit the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region later this month, the country’s top environmental authority said.
It will be difficult for cold air from the north to move southward as it weakens after the middle of the month, making dispersal of pollutants in the region difficult, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment said in a statement on Friday.
The Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta may also see air pollution during this time period, it said.
In March, the 338 prefecture-level or bigger cities in the country saw more days with heavy pollution. The average concentration of PM2.5 — hazardous particulate matter with a diameter of or less than 2.5 micrometers — in these cities
Beijing Beijing released released its its technological technological needs needs for for environmental environmental protection protection at the at 2018 the 2018 Macao Macao International International Environmental Environmental Cooperation Cooperation Forum & Forum Exhibition & Exhibition in Macao onThursday. in Macao on Thursday. “We hope that international wisdom “We hope will provide that international a solution wisdom for Beijing’s will environmental provide a solution for technology Beijing’s needs environmental and develop technology a win-win cooperation needs and with develop Beijing,”said a win-win Chen cooperation Tian, deputy with Beijing,” secretary-general said Chen of Tian, the Beijing deputy municipal secretary-general government. of the Beijing The exhibition municipal started government. on
The exhibition started on Thursday and will end on Saturday.
The green equipment and technologies Beijing needs include hand-held gas detectors for vehicles, treatment and monitoring technology for fume pollution in the catering industry, ultralow emission gas boilers for residential heating, and pollution cleanup technologies for the automotive maintenance industry.
increased by 2.1 percent yearon-year to 48 micrograms per cubic meter, though the concentration in the past three months decreased by 9.7 percent.
Last month, none of the cities in the Beijing-TianjinHebei region made the top 10 in an air quality ranking of 74 cities nationwide, but the 10 Thursday and will end on Saturday.
The green equipment and technologies Beijing needs include handheld gas detectors for vehicles, treatment and monitoring technology for fume pollution in the catering industry, ultralow emission gas boilers for residential heating, and pollution cleanup technologies for the automotive maintenance industry.
“As Beijing has been a preferred
“As Beijing has been a preferred place for the testing, demonstration and application of the world’s leading environmental protection technologies, successfully applied green technologies in Beijing will have undisputed competitiveness in the mainland market,” Chen added.
The needed green technologies will provide assistance for the next stage of environmental protection work in Beijing.
cities at the bottom are from or near the region.
Tangshan and Shijiazhuang in Hebei province had the worst air quality, according to the ministry.
“Last month, the 13 cities in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region saw only about half of days with good air quality or better, and PM2.5 concentration all place for the testing, demonstration and application of the world’s leading environmental protection technologies, successfully applied green technologies in Beijing will have undisputed competitiveness in the mainland market,”Chen added.
The needed green technologies will provide assistance for the next stage of environmental protection work in Beijing. in the region went up by 27 percent to 80 micrograms per cubic meter,” it said.
The situation in the capital last month was even worse. Beijing only saw fairly good air quality on 46.7 percent of days, and the average concentration of PM2.5 soared by almost 40 percent to 88 mcg per cubic meter.