Call for industrial changes to improve cities' air quality
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June 5, 2013, Wednesday
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INDUSTRIAL restructuring and adjusting the country's energy mix is key to addressing air pollution, Environment Minister Zhou Shengxian said yesterday.
He acknowledged grave challenges. Pollution from coal burning had not yet been tamed; regional air pollution by PM2.5, tiny pollutant particles, had become an outstanding problem, and air quality in many cities had seriously worsened.
Conflicts that developed nations had encountered over a century had surfaced in China overnight, Zhou said. China's industrial pattern, characterized by high energy consumption and pollution yet low efficiency and output, had not yet been altered, and the industrial mix was skewed toward heavy industry.
He also said efforts should be made to shift the energy mix, including capping coal consumption, clean uses of coal and developing clean energy.
He suggested regulating the number of cars in large cities, replacing heavily polluting cars and lowering sulfur content in gasoline.
He acknowledged grave challenges. Pollution from coal burning had not yet been tamed; regional air pollution by PM2.5, tiny pollutant particles, had become an outstanding problem, and air quality in many cities had seriously worsened.
Conflicts that developed nations had encountered over a century had surfaced in China overnight, Zhou said. China's industrial pattern, characterized by high energy consumption and pollution yet low efficiency and output, had not yet been altered, and the industrial mix was skewed toward heavy industry.
He also said efforts should be made to shift the energy mix, including capping coal consumption, clean uses of coal and developing clean energy.
He suggested regulating the number of cars in large cities, replacing heavily polluting cars and lowering sulfur content in gasoline.
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