Beijing set to exit list of world's top 200 most-polluted cities: Data

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BEIJING: China's capital of Beijing is on track to drop out from the list of the world's top 200 most-polluted cities this year, with hazardous ...

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BEIJING: China's capital of Beijing is on track to drop out from the list of the world's top 200 most-polluted cities this year, with hazardous smog concentrations falling to their lowest on record in August, data compiled by IQAir AirVisual showed on Thursday .

However, the city's air quality in 2019 will still likely be more than four times higher than the WHO annual mean PM2.5 concentration guideline of 10 micrograms per cubic metre, and also higher than China's own interim national standard of 35 micrograms. In the first eight months of this year, Beijing had an average hourly PM2.5 concentration reading of 42.6 micrograms, 19.3 per cent lower than last year. The figures were less than half of the average in the same period in 2009, IQAir AirVisual said in a study of data from the US Embassy in Beijing as well as 34 official government monitoring stations.Beijing's average hourly PM2.5 concentration in August was 22.

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