Cities shamed over failure to cope with smog
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CHINA’S environment ministry has named and shamed cities in the north for not doing enough to cope with smog, Xinhua news agency reported.
Large parts of northern China have been blanketed in choking smog this winter, defying repeated government efforts to tackle the problem.
Pollution alerts are common in northern China, especially during bitterly cold winters when energy demand, much of it met by coal, soars. The ministry’s inspection of 18 cities in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei Province found several problems in their smog response.
Hebei’s Cangzhou City was criticized for failing to draw up a detailed list for business shutdowns on heavily polluted days, which made it hard to achieve a reduction in emissions, the report said.
Jiaozuo City did not begin traffic controls taking vehicles off the road when the city went on red alert for pollution, while Baoding City was well behind in upgrading coal-fired boilers to make emissions cleaner, Xinhua added.
China is in the third year of a war on pollution aimed at reversing the damage done after decades of untrammeled economic growth.
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