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SHANGHAI has been tracing pollution sources, controlling the pollution-forming process and severely punishing those responsible in an effort to cut PM2.5 levels by 20 percent within three years, officials said.
The authority is taking some short-term measures, including halting construction and limiting vehicles during the most polluted days.
Long-term efforts include building cooperation among all the Yangtze River Delta cities and the nation to solve the problem, said Zhang Quan, director of the Shanghai Environmental Protection Bureau.
Vehicle and factory emissions account for 50 percent of the city’s pollution, followed by dust from construction sites (10.5 percent), power stations (7.3 percent) and straw burning (10 percent). The other 20 percent is from other provinces, Zhang said.
“Conditions must surely improve with increased government funding and better communication between cities,” he said.
The Shanghai government will use funds from Beijing and its own budget to establish more monitoring stations, and to finance research and development to curb pollution.
The traffic authority is to eliminate the remaining 10,000 heavily polluting public buses this year, said Sun Jianping, director with the city’s traffic and harbor management bureau.
Vehicles found discharging black smoke face fines of up to 500 yuan (US$82). Those responsible for pollution or involved in serious environmental violations can be fined up to 100,000 yuan.
Companies discharging air pollutants without licenses or unloading excessive levels of pollutants, even if they are licensed, will be fined up to 100,000 yuan or possibly shut down if they fail to rectify problems.
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