Beijing strengthens fight against air pollution
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BEIJING will spend 18.2 billion yuan (US$2.6 billion) to fight air pollution in 2017, according to the city government.
This year, the city will strengthen air pollution treatment, replace coal with clean energy for 700 villages, phase out 300,000 high-polluting old vehicles, close or upgrade 2,570 polluting factories, said acting mayor Cai Qi while delivering the city government work report to the annual session of the Beijing Municipal People’s Congress, which opened on Saturday.
Cai said Beijing will take tougher measures to improve the city’s air quality in 2017.
The city will “strictly implement emission standards, enhance the environmental law enforcement and establish an environmental protection police force,” he said in the work report.
Acts of excessively or secretly discharging pollutants will be severely punished, Cai added.
According to an official of the Beijing Public Security Bureau, the 150-strong environment, food, drug and tourism safety police force has been created and will be officially inaugurated soon.
The environment police squad can detain suspects in serious environment-related cases, Cai told municipal lawmakers.
The environment police will work with the city’s environmental protection authorities to crack down on violations in environmental protection, Fang Li, head of the Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau, told qianlong.com, a major news portal in the capital.
Beijing’s environmental watchdog handled 13,127 environment-related cases in 2016, with fines totaling 150 million yuan, including 40 million yuan for nearly 1,400 air pollution cases.
Last year, Beijing had 198 days with good air quality, up 12 days in 2015.
The city aims to control the annual average density of PM2.5 to around 60 micrograms per cubic meter this year, according to Lu Yan, head of the Beijing Development and Reform Commission.
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