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China’s first legally binding regulations for reducing PM2.5 levels have been approved <\/a>by Beijing’s municipal congress.
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\nBeijing’s annual average<\/a> PM2.5 level currently stands at 89.5 micrograms per cubic meter, far exceeding the 35-micrograms national standard. Officials have previously pledged to reduce this figure by 25% over the next five years.<\/p>\n

The new law, which was passed by a huge margin of 659-23<\/a> at the annual session of the municipal legislative body last week, will come into effect in March. Fang Li, deputy head of Beijing’s environmental authority, told China’s state news agency Xinhua<\/a> that the regulation would be Beijing’s first effort to set target to curb the city’s total pollutant emissions.<\/p>\n

About one-third of the total clauses in this regulation feature tougher punishment for polluters, which the vice director of the municipal congress’ standing committee said<\/a> were aimed at make polluting behaviours too expensive for companies to profit from.<\/p>\n

According to the regulation, Beijing will toughen penalties<\/a> on air pollution violations – non-compliers will be fined on a daily basis.<\/p>\n

Beijing mayor Wang Anshun has said that air pollution is currently the biggest problem concerning people’s livelihoods in the capital and that it would be worth  spending a trillion<\/a> yuan to bring back the blue sky, clean water and green fields.<\/p>\n

Ma Jun, the director of the Institute of Public Environmental Affairs, told the Global Times<\/a> that the regulation was of great significance as previous regulations usually focus on the reduction of emissions rather than PM2.5 levels.<\/p>\n

However, Greenpeace Asia’s Climate and Energy campaigner Li Shuo told chinadialogue<\/em> that the significance of the regulation itself was limited. “There is nothing we have not seen in other policies or official documents…to some degree, the regulation is only a collective of all previous air pollution control efforts.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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