Tianjin to adopt much stricter measures to contain air pollution
2018-08-28 16:37:43 [Print]
To improve Tianjin's air quality and to drive down its number of poor-air-quality days notably, Tianjin government recently announced a much stricter anti-air-pollution three-year action plan. Goals included in the action plan are as follows: by the year of 2020, the annual average PM2.5 density in Tianjin will reach the level of around 52mcg/m3, the number of good-air-quality days in Tianjin's urban and rural districts account for 71% of the annual total days, and the number of their very-poor-air-quality days drop by 25% from that in 2015.
To achieve those goals, the government will adopt the following measures:
To prohibit building new production capacities of steel, coking, electrolytic aluminum, casting, cement, sheet glass and so on;
To develop and expand green industries, clean production industries and clean energy industries; Regarding residential heating, the government plans to cut coal consumption and replace it with natural gas consumption;
To further eliminate surplus and backward production capacities. By the year of 2020, Tianjin is expected to cut poor-quality steel production capacity by 6.9 million tons. Existing surplus production capacities of steel, cement and sheet glass should be cut by the way of capacity replacement.
To achieve those goals, the government will adopt the following measures:
To prohibit building new production capacities of steel, coking, electrolytic aluminum, casting, cement, sheet glass and so on;
To develop and expand green industries, clean production industries and clean energy industries; Regarding residential heating, the government plans to cut coal consumption and replace it with natural gas consumption;
To further eliminate surplus and backward production capacities. By the year of 2020, Tianjin is expected to cut poor-quality steel production capacity by 6.9 million tons. Existing surplus production capacities of steel, cement and sheet glass should be cut by the way of capacity replacement.
