Tianjin municipality

China's Tianjin's PM2.5 level down 16 percent in 2015

 Tianjin Municipality, located in the notoriously smoggy Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, witnessed a nearly 16 percent year-on-year drop in PM2.5 density in 2015, authorities said on Wednesday.

Jan 20, 2016, 19:37 PM IST

China removes 60 percent of high-emission vehicles

 China has removed 696,500 high-emission vehicles from roads nationwide, accounting for 60 percent of the country's high-emission cars, the environmental protection ministry said on Tuesday.China has only four months to remove the others to meet this year's target of pulling all high-emission commercial vehicles from the roads, Xinhua news agency reported.

Sep 29, 2015, 18:44 PM IST