More air monitoring stations for Beijing
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BEIJING is to almost double the number of its air monitoring stations to enable a more accurate picture of the state of the capital’s air quality, Xinhua news agency said yesterday.
An extra 30 stations will be added to the 35 already in operation, Zhang Dawei, director of the Beijing Environmental Monitoring Center, said.
Beijing frequently features near the top of the list of China’s most polluted cities as emissions from vehicles and heavy industry combine with weather conditions to raise smog levels. The worst bouts of air pollution tend to coincide with periods of low wind.
“After the upgrade ... we will have more data about the city’s air quality,” Zhang said.
It did not give a timeframe for when the new stations would come online.
For Beijing and its surroundings, the government has set a 2020 target of reducing pollution by 40 percent from 2013 levels.
The capital issued its first “red alerts” in December last year, when hazardous smog engulfed the city.
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