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Air pollution in Harbin, China in 2013 and action by local and national authorites to address problems

01/14/2013

For the first time public officials in local and national government coordinate efforts to tackle smog in Harbin in October 2013, with visibility so low that the whole city had to be shut down. Evidence of greater transparency in environmental information with pollutant 2.5 levels shown on state websites for 113 cities in October 2013. The Jinping-Li Keqiang administration has set the goal of reducing pollutant 2.5 levels by 25% each year for Beijing, Tianjin and the Hebei province region in northern China.The Ministry of Environmental Protection is given powers to take action to control pollutant levels.

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