(Source: Reuters) Smog shrouds Pudong in Shanghai. (Source: Reuters)China is drawing up plans to extend curbs on smog over the 2018-2020 period, an environment ministry official said on Wednesday, after a five-year crackdown on pollution helped it meet its air quality targets last month. “It will continue to make Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei its key focus but it will also focus on other major regions like the Yangtze river delta, the northeast and Chengdu-Chongqing,” he added. Beijing has already sought to impose new “special emissions restrictions” on enterprises in major industrial sectors in northern China. Liu said China would continue to tackle “scattered” coal-burning sources – a major source of uncontrolled pollution in provinces like Hebei – and would also “steadily” promote clean energy heating.

Source: Indian Express January 31, 2018 05:37 UTC