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China has slashed air pollution, but the 'war' isn't over
PM2.5 levels dropped nearly 70% in Beijing since 2013, boosting life expectancy by 1.8 years, but many cities still exceed WHO limits amid shifting pollution patterns.
- Since 2013, Beijing municipality said PM2.5 levels have fallen 69.8 percent, while nationwide particulate pollution dropped 41 per cent over a decade, the AQLI reported.
- China's ruling Communist Party released a ten-point action plan declaring a 'war against pollution' and used measures like moving factories, restricting vehicles, vehicle electrification programs, and closing coal plants and mines.
- Public monitoring data from the US embassy in Beijing showed rising awareness as international schools installed domes and an October haze left Harbin stalled with PM2.5 40 times the WHO standard.
- Official 2025 data found nationwide average PM2.5 concentrations decreased 4.4 per cent year on year, but eighty-eight percent of days were graded 'good' while Shanghai ranked among the world's twenty most polluted this winter on IQAir.
- Looking to the future, officials point to cleaner production and renewables as China plans to tighten the 'good' PM2.5 standard to 25 by 2035, despite slower reductions and pollution shifting west to Xinjiang.
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