Home / China / Local News Tools: Save | Print | E-mail | Most Read | Comment
Beijing sees record 'blue sky' days in February
Adjust font size:

Beijing experienced 26 "blue sky" days, or days with fairly good air quality, in February, the best run of clear days since 2000.

Beijing had 11 more blue sky days this month than a year ago, and 10 days more than the eight-year average after it experienced a record 22 such days in January, the Beijing Environment Protection Administration said on Friday.

Beijing recorded 29 consecutive blue sky days from Jan. 21 to Feb. 18, the longest period of consecutive days with fairly good air quality in history, according to the bureau. Experts attributed the desulfurization project applied in the heating season, between Nov. 15 to March. 15, as the major factor that kept the air clear. Sulphur dioxide, the major pollutant in the city, overran the standard for 106 days in the heating season in 1998, while in 2006 it dropped to 27 days.

Another factor was the further closure of heavily-polluting industrial facilities in or near the capital. Ten major polluting facilities were closed.

Beijing had 246 blue sky days in 2007. It aimed to have 70 percent of the days up to standard this year, which meant there should be at least 256 blue sky days.

The capital launched the blue sky drive in 1998.

(Xinhua News Agency February 29, 2008)

Tools: Save | Print | E-mail | Most Read
Comment
Pet Name
Anonymous
China Archives
Related >>
- 10 years' work will 'ensure' clean-air Games
Most Viewed >>
- Beijing subway line 10 opens for engineering trials
- New airport terminal to open on Friday
- China to carry out first spacewalk in late 2008
- Billions collected in road tolls illegal
- World's longest sea-spanning bridge to open
- 'The China Riddle'
- China builds 1st pilotless airplane base
- Parents too shy to talk about sex
- World's 1st cylinder sea drilling platform in water
- China starts excavation for world's first 3G nuclear plant