Lanzhou will implement new air quality standards starting next month

Starting from January 1, next year, Lanzhou City will implement new air quality standards and announce six major pollutants including PM2.5. The monitoring site in Lanzhou City will be increased to 14 on the basis of five national control points, and nine additional points are expected to be completed at the end of the month. After completion, the monitoring stations basically covered all districts of the city, so that a network for tracking air quality in Lanzhou was built.

In addition, the Lanzhou Municipal Government held a special meeting to initiate the work of the monitoring project on the impact of air pollution on population health in Lanzhou to study the deployment of related work.

In 2014, the National Health and Family Planning Commission conducted monitoring work on the impact of air pollution on population health in 31 provinces across the country. The Provincial Health and Family Planning Commission identified Lanzhou City as a project city and took the lead in carrying out air pollution monitoring on the health of the population in the province. Including the collection of ambient air quality, meteorological data, cause of death monitoring data and demographic data, hospital emergency information, etc., to carry out the monitoring of haze characteristics of pollutants and composition analysis, primary school students health impact investigation and community health monitoring. The meeting introduced the specific implementation content of the monitoring project of air pollution on population health impact in Lanzhou City in 2014, and carried out the division of responsibilities for each related department, further clarified hygiene, family planning, environmental protection, meteorology, public security, education, finance, and urban areas. The specific tasks and responsibilities of the street (community).