Shanghai Starts Air Quality Improvement Plan

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Shanghai Starts Air Quality Improvement Plan

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Sources from Shanghai Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau say that Shanghai, in order to deliver the World Expo 2010 a comfortable climate, will start the "research plan of blue sky and white cloud for World Expo" this year.

According to the new three-year action plan on environmental protection, Shanghai will keep the rate of a fairly good air quality above 80 percent this year, which means there will be over 300 days with fairly good air conditions. By 2005, the city will have to maintain a rate of over-85 percent with air quality at grade ii or above, striving for 90 percent. In the meantime, index of inhaling granules will have to approach the standard set by the World Health Organization.

This year, Shanghai will have 300 coal-consuming kitchen ranges replaced by those using clean fuels, in a bid to construct 10 basically non-coal-fuelled neighborhoods. At the same, related departments will intensify control over tail gas emission of new automobiles, with 20,000 ones examined. The whole city will push forward clean energy replacement of buses and renewal of taxies, coupled with expansion of the range of no gasoline-fuelled automobiles. Law-enforcement departments will conduct supervision on soot pollution as well as dust control over piling grounds, construction sites and transportation vehicles so as to curb pollution of granules discharged into the air.

By PD Online Staff Zhu Lizhen

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