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:
Friends of Nature website: http://www.fon.org.cn/
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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
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Apr 26, 2012 03:10 Report Abuse