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| Saturday,March 28,2009 Posted: 17:37 BJT(0937 GMT) |
| From:Mofcom Article type:Reproduced |
Monitoring of water quality on 408 sections of the seven major water systems in China showed that 50 percent of the sections met the national quality standard of Grade III for surface water, 26.5 percent of the sections met the quality standard of Grade IV or V, and 23.5 percent were worse than Grade V standard. There was no significant change of the water quality in the seven major water systems compared with that in the previous year.
Monitoring of oceanic water quality at 296 offshore stations indicated that oceanic water met the national quality standard of Grade I or II in 62.8 percent of the stations, down 4.9 percentage points from that in the previous year; water quality at 11.8 percent of the stations met Grade III standard, up 3.8 percentage points; and water of Grade IV standard or inferior quality was found at 25.4 percent of the stations, up 1.1 percentage points. A total of 145,000 square km of oceanic waters did not meet the quality standard for clean oceanic water, a decrease of 4,000 square km. Of this total, seriously polluted oceanic area occupied 29,000 square km. Seriously polluted oceanic area in the Bohai Sea occupied 6,000 square km.
In the 557 cities covered by an air quality monitoring program, 389 cities reached or topped air quality standard of Grade II, accounting for 69.8 percent of all cities under the program; 152 cities attained Grade III standard, accounting for 27.3 percent; and air quality in 16 cities was inferior to Grade III standard, accounting for 2.9 percent. Among the 342 cities subject to a noise monitoring program, 6.1 percent enjoyed fairly good environment, 64.6 percent had good environment, 28.1 percent had light noise pollution, and 1.2 percent featured moderate noise pollution in downtown areas.
The average temperature in 2007 was 10.1 degrees Centigrade, which was 0.2 degrees Centigrade higher than that in the previous year. Typhoon hit China eight times in 2007, two more compared with that in 2006.
At the end of 2007, the daily treatment capacity of city sewage reached 70 million cubic meters, up 10 percent over that in 2006. City sewage treatment rate was 59 percent, up 3.3 percentage points. The floor space with central heating systems amounted to 2.85 billion square meters, up 7.1 percent. Greenery coverage reached 36 percent in urban areas, up 1 percentage point.
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