Nature in harmony: Birds flying at a nature reserve at Dongting Lake wetland in Xiangyin County, Hunan province. Water pollution has decreased significantly in the past year. — Xinhua
BEIJING: China has fulfilled all eight obligatory targets for environmental protection in 2021, the Minister of Ecology and Environment, Huang Runqiu reported to the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress.There has been continuous improvement in air quality, with cities at the prefecture level and above experiencing fairly good air quality 87.5% of the time last year, beating the annual target by 2.3 percentage points.
The average density of PM 2.5 particulates, which poses a hazard to health, dropped to 30 micrograms per cubic metre, 13.6% better than the goal.
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