Chinese Regime Loosens Controls on Air Pollution

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This aerial view taken with a drone shows pollution being emitted from steel factories in Hancheng, Shaanxi Province, China on Feb. 17, 2018. Fred Dufour/AFP/Getty Images

Chinese authorities have released their latest targets for air quality in northern China this fall and winter, easing standards for pollution controls across the region by several percentage points on average.

On Sept. 27, China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) and other commissions jointly issued an air pollution-control plan for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region (abbreviated in Chinese as Jing-jin-ji) and surrounding areas for the fall and winter spanning 2018-2019.