The density of PM2.5, a key indicator of air pollution, dropped by over 10 percent in 2018 from the previous year in three heavily-polluted areas, including the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. In terms of soil pollution control, Li said the country had reduced solid waste imports by 46.5 perc...
This has proved to be very effective because the recorded levels of PM2.5 and sulphur dioxide (SO2) dropped by 42 and 68 per cent, respectively, between 2013 and 2018. In 2012, a spokesperson for the China Medical Association warned that air pollution would become the biggest threat to the...
Air pollution in China has changed substantially since 2013, and the effects such changes bring to the human health and environment has been an increasingly hot topic in many scientific fields. Such studies, however, are often hindered by a lack of long-term air quality dataset in China of hi...
This paper investigates the impact of air pollution on people's interest in emigration. Using an online search index on "emigration" which is positively correlated with its search volume, we develop a city-by-day measurement of people's emigration sentiment. We find that searches on "emigration...
From October this year to March 2019, the number of days with heavy air pollution should be reduced by around 3 percent from the same period the year before, according to the plan. Starting from Oct. 1, emission restrictions should be strictly implemented on heavily-polluting sectors including...
The air pollution caused by the burning of fireworks during the lantern festival in Beijing The effects of the burning of fireworks on air quality in Beijing was firstly assessed from the ambient concentrations of various air pollutants (SO 2 , NO... Ying Wang a b,Guoshun Zhuang a b c,...
Most cities in China are experiencing severe air pollution due to rapid economic development and accelerated urbanization. Long-term air pollution data with high temporal and spatial resolutions are needed to support research into physical and chemical processes that affect air quality, and the correspon...
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The exposure–response relationship curves showed essentially linear associations between scarlet fever and lag air pollution concentrations in the DLNM model. In the single-variable model (Fig.5a–d), the range of relative risks from 2013 to 2018 was 0.54–2.04 for NO2, 0.65–1.92 for O3, 0.3...
China released a three-year action plan on air pollution control last year, vowing to cut emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide by more than 15 percent by 2020 compared with 2015 levels. Meanwhile, cities at prefecture level and above should see their numbers of good air days reach ...