Hebei tops worst air quality list
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North China’s Hebei Province was found to have the country’s worst air pollution for the third consecutive year, according to an annual report released yesterday by the Ministry of Environmental Protection.
Of China’s 10 smoggiest cities in 2015, seven were in steel-producing Hebei, which was also the case in 2013 and 2014.
The three worst-hit cities in 2015 were Baoding, Xingtai and Hengshui. Baoding also topped the list in 2013, but in 2014 the title was usurped by Xingtai.
The other four cities to make the list were the provincial capital Shijiazhuang, Tangshan, Handan and Langfang, said the report.
The ministry, which monitors 338 cities around the country, found that only 73, or 21.6 percent, met national air-quality standards last year.
The top three cities for meeting air-quality standards were Zhoushan, Fuzhou and Xiamen, all coastal cities in eastern and southeastern China.
The region of Hebei, Tianjin and Beijing had 173 high-pollution days last year, about 36 days fewer than the previous year.
The ministry recorded a significant decrease in hazardous PM2.5 pollutants, a major source of air contamination in the region, but did not provide figures.
In December, the region experienced five periods of severe pollution. Baoding and Hengshui had eight consecutive “heavily polluted” days, which means the daily PM2.5 density was over 200 micrograms per cubic meter, eight times the level considered safe by the World Health Organization.
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