Beijing to set stricter targets for polluting cities in autumn-winter season
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Smoke belches from a coal-fired power station near Datong, in China's northern Shanxi province, on Nov 15, 2015.
PHOTO: AFP
BEIJING (REUTERS) - China's Environment Ministry said on Friday (Sept 20) that it will set stricter targets for cities that had higher PM2.5 concentrations in the last autumn-winter season.
Cities that performed worse in pollution controls for the last two heating seasons will have the more stringent targets, Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) spokesman Liu Youbin said at a briefing on Friday.
Cities that met pollution targets last year will be exempt from targets this year, he also said.