East China's Shandong Province will accelerate its energy consumption structure adjustment and rein in in particular coal consumption to reduce air pollution. Shandong is a province where a vast amount of coal is consumed each year.
In 2014, its coal consumption reached 396 million tonnes, trumping other provinces in China and its coal consumption made up 80.8 percent of its total energy consumption mix, up 14 percentage points than the national average.
For a long time, household coal-burning prevails in Shandong, resulting apparently low-altitude waste gas emission and aggravating the air pollution in north China.
Dong Xiujuan, vice head of Shandong's environmental protection department, said that the province would strive to cut provincial coal consumption by 10 million tonnes than 2012 in 2016, draft plans on clean household coal utilization, release standards on coal supply to households, and establish clean coal distribution system to slash at maximum low-altitude air pollution caused by coal burning.
In 2015, average density of PM2.5, PM10, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen dioxide in Shandong dropped 7.3 percent, 7.7 percent, 23.7 percent and 10.9 percent from the year prior and days of heavy air pollution averaged 29.9, down 4.8 days than 2014.
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