Fight Against SMOG......

As winter approaches, Beijing is preparing to fight smog, and many cities in northern China have forbidden coal.
Contrary to previous efforts coordinated by the Ministry of Environmental Protection in recent years, the ban on coal, as mentioned, has become an economic policy monitored by a coalition of higher authorities. Specific targets on air quality standards and the number of non-coal districts were passed to 28 cities in northern China.

In recent years, China has been severely affected by air pollution, especially in winter, and major cities in northern China pollutants or PM 2.5 in the air 300-1000 micrograms per meter cube (μg / m 3). These high levels of contaminants are dangerous to human health and can cause lung disease, emphysema, lung cancer or premature death in people with heart or lung disease.

Last week, Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi Province, was the heart of coal production in China, one of the areas of coal bans. The announcement is considered a symbolic act that shows Beijing's willingness to reduce coal consumption.
Shortly after the list of 28 cities, the ban on coal became a campaign, with banners and slogans strategically placed for people to see.

Street and village commissions in the Coal-less districts have mobilized to ensure that residents move to clean energy sources.

While people love the blue sky, many are also worried that those who can not afford clean energy get cold this winter. In Weibo, some have urged the authorities to delay the implementation of the ban on coal:

In 2011, the idea of coal free cities was introduced to minimize coal consumption in Beijing, the Capital city of China. A concrete and comprehensive action plan was launched in 2013, which identified Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei as the most accurate region for air quality control. It is a goal that sets the average annual concentration of hazardous substance PM2.5 (particles 2.5 micrometre or less) in Beijing at a level of 60ug / m3 (microgram / cubic meter).
As expected, the plan is opposed, as Hebei is China's steel distribution centre and the heavy industry is mainly dependent on coal as a source of energy.

In August 2017, the Ministry of Environmental Protection developed its action plan and published a plan to fight smuggling. In addition to Beijing and Tianjin, 26 other cities in Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong and Henan provinces have been included in the non-charter districts. But the ministry also admitted that it is difficult to meet the 2017 goal.

However, reducing carbon consumption is not just an environmental campaign; It has also become a problem of economic development and planning.

In September 2017, a political coalition of high level Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, the National Development Committee and the Ministry of Finance and Energy reform gave a follow-up guide that forces the head of the 28 cities to accelerate the establishment of coal-free districts to meet the 2017 air quality standard.

Taiyuan, China's coal center, has taken measures to ban coal. As the richest city in Shanxi, Taiyuan does not suffer too much from the ban on coal, other mining towns of Shanxi, including Jincheng, where most people depend on coal to warm their homes, bans responded to more resentment. . In a chat room in Jincheng, people said: