{"id":69552,"date":"2016-12-29T17:03:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=69552 "},"modified":"2016-12-29T17:03:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T17:03:00","slug":"69552-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=69552","title":{"rendered":"Northern China Urged to Prepare for More Heavy Smog"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">December 28, 2016 11:36 PM<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mzzg.org\/UploadCenter\/ArticlePics\/2016\/52\/2016122958939051-2D1D-4CCC-8A6C-6453B8098F55_cx0_cy10_cw0_w987_r1_s_r1.jpg\" alt=\"2016122958939051-2D1D-4CCC-8A6C-6453B8098F55_cx0_cy10_cw0_w987_r1_s_r1.jpg (987&#215;555)\" \/><\/div><div><\/div><div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><\/span><\/div><p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">FILE &#8211; People wear protective masks near the Bund during a polluted day in Shanghai,  China, Jan. 19, 2016. <\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">SHANGHAI<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> &#8212; China&#8217;s environment ministry has warned northern regions to be ready to take emergency action as the country prepares for another onslaught of heavy smog.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The Ministry of Environmental Protection, in a notice published Thursday, said heavy smog was expected in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, as well as the neighboring provinces of Shandong and Henan.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The ministry said &#8220;unfavorable weather conditions&#8221; in the regions were expected to last until January 5, and it had asked local governments to take appropriate actions to reduce emissions in a timely fashion.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">It said it would dispatch 10 inspection teams to make sure emergency measures are implemented and to crack down on firms engaging in illegal behavior.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Large parts of the country&#8217;s northern regions were hit by hazardous smog in mid-December, which led authorities to order hundreds of factories to close.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Beijing<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&#8217;s red alert for smog was canceled December 22. The next day, the ministry admonished more than 20 firms for failing to comply with emergency rules aimed at cutting emissions.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Hebei<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">, regarded as China&#8217;s most polluted province, said it would learn lessons from last week&#8217;s smog and draw up more focused measures.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The province&#8217;s environment bureau said Monday it would make adjustments to its emergency system to improve its performance.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In recent smog outbreaks, individuals and firms had not been given enough time to respond to pollution alerts, and warnings would now be issued at an earlier stage, said Wang Xiaoli, director of the province&#8217;s Heavy Pollution Early Warning Centre.<\/span><\/p><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><\/span><\/div><div><\/div><div><\/div><div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/analysts-question-autonomy-of-china-anti-corruption-system\/3655285.html\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">For detail please visit here<\/span><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;The Ministry of Environmental Protection, in a notice published Thursday, said heavy smog was expected in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, as well as the neighboring provinces of Shandong and Henan.&lt;\/div&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}