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China's new environmental standards add PM2.5 limits to emphasize the importance of protecting human health
China on March 2nd dispatch (reporter yan-ling zhang) wu xiaoqing, vice-minister of environmental protection in today's news conference to introduce Chinese "ambient air quality standard revision work related situation, compared with the current" ambient air quality standard ", the new standard emphasized in order to protect human health as the first goal, value of projects and adjusted the pollutants, which add the average PM2.5 concentration limit, overall, new pollutants in the ambient air quality standards to control the project implementation in line with international standards.
Wu xiaoqing said that since the revision of the environmental air quality standard in January 2008, it has attracted great attention from all walks of life.Especially in recent years, some parts of China have been plagued by haze. The news media and the public are eager to issue a new environmental air quality standard as soon as possible, which will include PM2.5 into the routine monitoring range.
According to wu xiaoqing, compared with the current "environmental air quality standards", the new standards emphasize the primary goal of protecting human health, adjust the classification scheme of environmental air functional zones, and further expand the scope of people's protection.The standards have been adjusted, added, updated and tightened. We have adjusted the pollutant items and limits, including the PM2.5 average concentration limit and the 38-hour average concentration limit, and tightened the limits for PM10 and other pollutants.We tightened regulations on the effectiveness of monitoring data statistics, raising the requirement for effective data from 50%-75% to 75-90%.The analysis methods for sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, particulate matter and other pollutants were updated, and automatic monitoring and analysis methods were added.In accordance with the law of the People's Republic of China on the prevention and control of air pollution, it is stipulated that key cities for the prevention and control of air pollution that fail to meet the standards shall formulate and implement plans to meet the standards according to law.
Wu xiaoqing think, overall, new pollutants in the ambient air quality standards to control the project implementation in line with international standards, but because our country is still a developing country, economic and technological development level determines the limit of PM10 and PM2.5 pollutants at present can only with developing countries who is generally used to air quality standards, the first stage the target market.In this sense, the new standard is only connected with the world's "low orbit", and our country will have a long way to go before it can truly meet the WHO guidelines.
Wu xiaoqing said, about the environmental air quality index (AQI) technical regulations ", we according to the current air pollution index (API) to evaluate the results do not agree with people's objective feeling and other issues, new releases of the ambient air quality index (AQI) technical regulations, further emphasized the AQI guidance role in the service of the public health, increased participation in project evaluation of pollutants, adjusted classified expression, and improve the air quality monitoring data and index released way, through every hour moment release various monitoring points of the main pollutants concentration and the AQI and corresponding air quality evaluation result,To provide reference for the public to understand the environmental quality, reasonable arrangement of life and travel.
With regard to the implementation of the new standards of general public concern, the ministry of environmental protection also issued the notice on the implementation of the environmental air quality standard > (hereinafter referred to as the notice).The circular clearly stipulates the phased implementation requirements for the new standards to be implemented nationwide on January 1, 2016.Therefore, January 1, 2016 is the "closing time" for the national implementation of the standard."The ministry of environmental protection encourages the people's governments of all provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government) to implement the new standards before the time limit specified above, according to the actual situation and the needs of local environmental protection," the circular said.In key areas such as the beijing-tianjin-hebei region, the Yangtze river delta region, and the pearl river delta region, where the economic and technological foundation is relatively sound and the composite air pollution is prominent, we should take the lead in implementing new standards for environmental air quality, in aligning the monitoring results with the feelings of the people, and in striving for early international standards."Notice" requirements through the formulation standard plan, improving the environment around the barriers to entry, deepen the regional atmospheric pollutant zone from spreading, strengthening the motor vehicle pollution control, increase investment in atmospheric pollution control, improve heavy pollution weather forecast warning, realize the gradual improvement of air environmental quality, strive to meet as soon as possible, to protect public health.
The release of ambient air quality standards, a milestone in the history of China's environmental protection, marked the beginning the focus of the environmental protection work from the pollutant emission control management to the environmental quality management phase, from local pollution control to spreading zone, from a pollution control to control the secondary pollutants, from a separate control individual pollutants to pollutants more collaborative control, these changes will puts forward higher requirements for environmental protection work in China.
Wu xiaoqing said that since the revision of the environmental air quality standard in January 2008, it has attracted great attention from all walks of life.Especially in recent years, some parts of China have been plagued by haze. The news media and the public are eager to issue a new environmental air quality standard as soon as possible, which will include PM2.5 into the routine monitoring range.
According to wu xiaoqing, compared with the current "environmental air quality standards", the new standards emphasize the primary goal of protecting human health, adjust the classification scheme of environmental air functional zones, and further expand the scope of people's protection.The standards have been adjusted, added, updated and tightened. We have adjusted the pollutant items and limits, including the PM2.5 average concentration limit and the 38-hour average concentration limit, and tightened the limits for PM10 and other pollutants.We tightened regulations on the effectiveness of monitoring data statistics, raising the requirement for effective data from 50%-75% to 75-90%.The analysis methods for sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, particulate matter and other pollutants were updated, and automatic monitoring and analysis methods were added.In accordance with the law of the People's Republic of China on the prevention and control of air pollution, it is stipulated that key cities for the prevention and control of air pollution that fail to meet the standards shall formulate and implement plans to meet the standards according to law.
Wu xiaoqing think, overall, new pollutants in the ambient air quality standards to control the project implementation in line with international standards, but because our country is still a developing country, economic and technological development level determines the limit of PM10 and PM2.5 pollutants at present can only with developing countries who is generally used to air quality standards, the first stage the target market.In this sense, the new standard is only connected with the world's "low orbit", and our country will have a long way to go before it can truly meet the WHO guidelines.
Wu xiaoqing said, about the environmental air quality index (AQI) technical regulations ", we according to the current air pollution index (API) to evaluate the results do not agree with people's objective feeling and other issues, new releases of the ambient air quality index (AQI) technical regulations, further emphasized the AQI guidance role in the service of the public health, increased participation in project evaluation of pollutants, adjusted classified expression, and improve the air quality monitoring data and index released way, through every hour moment release various monitoring points of the main pollutants concentration and the AQI and corresponding air quality evaluation result,To provide reference for the public to understand the environmental quality, reasonable arrangement of life and travel.
With regard to the implementation of the new standards of general public concern, the ministry of environmental protection also issued the notice on the implementation of the environmental air quality standard > (hereinafter referred to as the notice).The circular clearly stipulates the phased implementation requirements for the new standards to be implemented nationwide on January 1, 2016.Therefore, January 1, 2016 is the "closing time" for the national implementation of the standard."The ministry of environmental protection encourages the people's governments of all provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government) to implement the new standards before the time limit specified above, according to the actual situation and the needs of local environmental protection," the circular said.In key areas such as the beijing-tianjin-hebei region, the Yangtze river delta region, and the pearl river delta region, where the economic and technological foundation is relatively sound and the composite air pollution is prominent, we should take the lead in implementing new standards for environmental air quality, in aligning the monitoring results with the feelings of the people, and in striving for early international standards."Notice" requirements through the formulation standard plan, improving the environment around the barriers to entry, deepen the regional atmospheric pollutant zone from spreading, strengthening the motor vehicle pollution control, increase investment in atmospheric pollution control, improve heavy pollution weather forecast warning, realize the gradual improvement of air environmental quality, strive to meet as soon as possible, to protect public health.
The release of ambient air quality standards, a milestone in the history of China's environmental protection, marked the beginning the focus of the environmental protection work from the pollutant emission control management to the environmental quality management phase, from local pollution control to spreading zone, from a pollution control to control the secondary pollutants, from a separate control individual pollutants to pollutants more collaborative control, these changes will puts forward higher requirements for environmental protection work in China.
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