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Quanzhou sees improved air quality in H1

Updated: Jul 27, 2020 Print
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In the first half of the year, air quality in the urban areas of Quanzhou, a city in East China's Fujian province, was rated at an average of 97.3 percent at excellent quality, a year-on-year increase of 0.6 percent, according to the Quanzhou bureau of ecology and environment.

The key indicators for the six major pollutants -- SO2, NO2, PM10, PM2.5, O3, CO -- were better than the secondary standards of ambient air quality during the period.

Quanzhou has done a great job in controlling its sources of pollution and effectively improving and reducing atmospheric emissions since the start of the year.

Moreover, it has implemented special actions to strengthen the city's treatment of air pollution.

This has involved treatment of volatile organic compounds, construction dust pollution, road dust pollution and the banning of fireworks and firecrackers.

Other measures have involved oil quality upgrades, treating fuel oil from ships and controlling pollution from open barbecues and pollution from the open burning of garbage.

The comprehensive treatment of air pollution from manufacturers has been further strengthened and 41 key provincial and municipal key projects for precise air emission reductions have been completed.

Jinjiang, a county-level city in Quanzhou, has completed the special treatment of waste gas from machines in the printing and dyeing industry, effectively reducing pollutant emissions.

Anxi county has carried out a special investigation and improvement of the rattan and iron crafts industry, closed and banned 25 enterprises and upgraded 56 enterprises.

In addition, in terms of controlling its sources of mobile pollution, the city has achieved full coverage in supervising motor vehicle emissions inspection agencies through on-site random inspections, emission detection comparisons and remote monitoring and investigations.

The city's new motor vehicle exhaust remote sensing monitoring system has been completed and been put into trial operations.

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