2008 China E-Newsletter - Clean Air Initiative
2008 China E-Newsletter - Clean Air Initiative
2008 China E-Newsletter - Clean Air Initiative
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CAI-Asia <strong>China</strong> Project E-<strong>Newsletter</strong> @<strong>2008</strong><br />
<strong>Air</strong> Quality, Energy, Transport, and Climate Change in <strong>China</strong><br />
CAI-Asia <strong>China</strong> Project E-<strong>Newsletter</strong><br />
Issue No. 34, <strong>2008</strong><br />
(Compiled by Shan HUANG)<br />
Included in this issue:<br />
- Huairou: good air quality days reached 78.5%<br />
- Zhejiang: auto-monitoring system begin to work<br />
- <strong>China</strong> adopts law to promote circular economy<br />
- Guiyang: natural gas plan for vehicles started<br />
- Government approves three-year rebuilding plan for quake zone<br />
AIR QUALITY<br />
- Facts<br />
Huairou: good air quality days reached 78.5% (August 28, <strong>2008</strong>)<br />
By the end of Olympics, the good air quality days (above Grade II Standard) reached 186,<br />
taking 78.5% of the past days from the beginning of the year in Huairou District, Beijing<br />
city. Good air quality days increased 8 days comparing with the same period of the last<br />
year. And 99 days of good air quality is left to achieve the aim of the 14 th phrase to the<br />
Huairou District.<br />
Chinese link: http://www.cenews.com.cn/xwzx/zhxw/qt/<strong>2008</strong>08/t<strong>2008</strong>0827_589225.html<br />
No serious pollution after fatal chemical plant blast in S <strong>China</strong> (August 27, <strong>2008</strong>)<br />
Tuesday morning's explosion at a chemical plant in south <strong>China</strong>'s Guangxi Zhuang<br />
Autonomous Region that killed 18 people caused no serious pollution to air or water,<br />
authorities said here on Wednesday.<br />
The regional Department of Environmental Protection said samples taken after the<br />
explosion that ripped through an organic compound workshop inside the plant, owned by<br />
Guangxi Guangwei Chemical Co., showed no signs of contamination.<br />
English link: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/<strong>2008</strong>-08/27/content_6975964.htm<br />
- <strong>Initiative</strong>s<br />
Shijiazhuang: Phased control will start based on the air quality control plan (August 29,<br />
<strong>2008</strong>)<br />
Shijiazhuang city government finish mading the work plan on air quality control and will<br />
start phased control in the city for the purpose that “the annual concentration of PM10,<br />
SO2 and NO2 reach the Grade II Standard by 2010”.<br />
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