On March 17, Jiangsu reported the current ambient air quality in the province, and interviewed the heads of districts, cities and state-controlled sites with severe air quality declines via video.
As of March 15, the province's PM2.5 concentration was 52.3 micrograms per cubic meter, a year-on-year increase of 10.1%; the rate of good days was 78.0%, a year-on-year decrease of 9.1 percentage points.
Although the reasons for the poor air quality are related to objective factors such as warmer climate and insufficient rainfall, the fundamental reason is that some places do not pay enough attention to air pollution prevention and control, lax thinking, and unrealistic work.
According to the previous monitoring data, the Jiangsu Provincial Headquarters Office has interviewed the relevant persons in charge of 5 districts and cities and 6 state-controlled sites whose air quality has seriously declined.
These districted cities and state-controlled sites generally have problems such as insufficient dust pollution control in key areas such as construction sites and ports, inadequate inspection and rectification of enterprise clusters, frequent occurrence of abnormally high concentrations of volatile organic compounds in some industrial parks, and prominent motor vehicle pollution.
Relevant departments require all localities to effectively manage and control dust, strengthen the renovation of key parks, speed up the progress of key gas control projects, and strengthen emission reduction from mobile sources, so as to reverse the unfavorable situation of declining atmospheric environmental quality as soon as possible, and ensure that the annual air quality improvement goal is achieved.
(Headquarters reporter Mao Jun)