Beijing, with a yearly average air quality index (AQI) of 144, was as polluted in 2015 as Delhi is today (Delhi’s average is 155 for 2024). But in the interim, Beijing has managed to cut its ...
The claim: The Chinese government says that Beijing's air quality improved sharply in the winter of 2017. Reality Check verdict: The air quality this winter has been better - but whether or not ...
Beijing recorded 290 days of good air quality last year, the highest since monitoring began, the municipal ecology and environment bureau said Thursday. The number of days with good air quality in ...
In the first 11 months, Beijing recorded 259 good air quality days, 13 more than the same period last year, according to the Beijing Municipal Ecology and Environment Bureau on Monday. The average ...
What truly made the difference, as highlighted in Siddharth Singh's 2018 book, The Great Smog of India, was that Beijing succeeded by elevating air pollution to the highest political priority.