Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is the worst air quality in the first quarter of 2016
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2016-04-27 19:21:29
Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang UyghurAutonomous Region, registered the country's worstair quality in the first quarter of 2016, the Ministryof Environmental Protection said last Monday.
In the three months from January to March, Urumqisuffered from air pollution on more than 50 percentof the days, the ministry said while publishing aquarterly list of cities with the worst air quality.
The Xinjiang capital was followed by Baoding and Xingtai in Hebei province, and Zhengzhou inHenan province on the list. Beijing did not make the list this time.
Other cities on the worst 10 list include Shijiazhuang, Hengshui, Handan and Tangshan, all inHebei province, and Jinan and Xi'an, capitals of Shandong and Shaanxi provinces, respectively.
The ministry said the notoriously smoggy Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region on average sufferedfrom air pollution on 40.3 percent of the days in the first quarter, a considerableimprovement from the same period last year.
But nationwide, 338 cities where data is available saw clear air on 71.3 percent of the days lastmonth, down 4 percentage points from last year.
The 10 cities with the best air quality are Haikou, Lhasa, Huizhou, Xiamen, Zhoushan,Shenzhen, Jiangmen, Zhuhai, Fuzhou and Zhongshan.