Shanghai to adopt tighter air quality standard

Shanghai is seeking to become one of the first cities in China to adopt a stricter air quality monitoring system before it is introduced nationwide in 2016, the Shanghai Environmental Protection Bureau said Thursday.

It was in the process of completing PM2.5 monitoring facilities across the city and would include a PM2.5 index in its forecasts before 2016, the city's enviromental watchdog said.  

Shanghai has started to establish testing PM2.5 monitoring sites since 2000.

Currently the city has already set up 24 PM2.5 monitoring sites and has acquired the PM2.5 monitoring capacity, said Fu Qingyan, senior engineer at the Shanghai Environmental Monitoring Center.      Read Here