Wuhu City’s Autumn And Winter Air Quality Continued to Improve

Recently, Ministry of Ecology and Environment released the completion of environmental air quality targets for key regions in the autumn and winter of 2019-2020. The reporter saw that the city’s average PM2.5 concentration in the autumn and winter of 2019-2020 was 47 micrograms per cubic meter, falling 24.2% year on year, ranking the fourth in the province, the eighth among the 41 cities in the Yangtze river delta region and exceeding the national target of 4% reduction. The number of days with heavy pollution was reduced to 1 day from 4 days in the autumn and winter of 2018, achieving the target of continuous improvement.

During the autumn and winter period from 2019 to 2020, our city continuously promoted the “five control” measures of coal control, gas control, vehicle control, dust control and combustion control, closely centering on the requirements of the action plan for comprehensive treatment of air pollution, with 60 major tasks completed on schedule.

To win the blue-sky battle, action and persistence are important. In the final year of the battle, Wuhu City has planned ahead of time and fully deployed. We will adhere to the original direction and efforts to continue to promote the upgrading of key industries, prevent and control the diesel truck pollution, renovate industrial furnaces and boilers and strengthen the capacity of early warning and forecasting so as to achieve precise, scientific and law-based pollution control, resolutely win the blue-sky battle and help the city achieve high-quality and green development.

                                                        Translated by Yuan Mengwen from Foreign Affairs Office of Wuhu Municipal People’s Government