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NGO Released Urban Air Quality Rankings for Provincial Capitals and Municipalities

NGO Released Urban Air Quality Rankings for Provincial Capitals and Municipalities
Apr 20, 2012 By eChinacities.com
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Yesterday, an environmental NGO called "Friends of Nature" published their "2012 China Environmental Green Paper", which ranked urban air quality for China's 31 provincial capital cities and municipalities. The group collected their data from the Ministry of Environmental Protection's daily air quality reports. The results show that the three worst offenders are Lanzhou, Urumqi and Beijing. In the last four years, Beijing has consistently been ranked very poorly; coming in 28th in 2008 and 2009, and dropping one spot to 29th in 2010 and 2011. As for other municipalities: Tianjin rose from 25th in 2010 to 17th in 2011; Chongqing rose from 20th in 2010 to 16th in 2011 and Shanghai remained 12th. The following is the full 2011 list:

  1. Haikou
  2. Kunming
  3. Lhasa
  4. Guangzhou
  5. Fuzhou
  6. Nanning
  7. Guiyang
  8. Hohhot
  9. Nanchang
  10. Changchun
  11. Changsha
  12. Shanghai
  13. Yinchuan
  14. Hangzhou
  15. Shenyang
  16. Chongqing
  17. Tianjin
  18. Shijiazhuang
  19. Chengdu
  20. Nanjing
  21. Jinan
  22. Xining
  23. Harbin
  24. Zhengzhou
  25. Taiyuan
  26. Wuhan
  27. Xi'an
  28. Hefei
  29. Beijing
  30. Urumqi
  31. Lanzhou

Friends of Nature website: http://www.fon.org.cn/

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Keywords: Friends of Nature Chinese NGO 2012 China Environmental Green Paper China cities air quality ranking

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Toby
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How can ranking the air quality among Chinese cities affect world opinion in any way? There is no comparison in this article to any cities outside of China. I realize you are a troll, but at least make sense. That being said, I live in Wuhan and the air can be cut with a knife at times.

Apr 24, 2012 02:25 Report Abuse

mattel55
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Thanks for the laugh man. That's hilarious...LOL HAHAHAHAHa lmfao

Apr 26, 2012 03:10 Report Abuse