Guangdong cities on list of filthy
Air quality in the Pearl River Delta is some of the filthiest on the mainland, with the number of smoggy days recorded in Shenzhen and Dongguan shooting up last year.
Shenzhen recorded 231 smoggy days, a sharp increase from 164 in 2006, the lead story in the Southern Weekend newspaper said yesterday.
Dongguan, one of the top industrial cities in Guangdong and home to many Hong Kong factories, was now the dirtiest city in the province in terms of air pollution, the newspaper said.
Quoting a report by meteorological experts in Beijing and Guangzhou, the newspaper included delta cities, especially those west of the Pearl River mouth, on a list of mainland cities suffering from the worst smog recorded across the country. The cities span the most developed regions, including Beijing, Shanghai, Xian, Chengdu, Taiyuan and Shenyang, Nanjing and Hangzhou.
The report came after Premier Wen Jiabao declared an initial victory in curbing pollution last year.
