Recently, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment announced the national ambient air quality situation in July this year. Among 168 key cities nationwide, Xiamen ranked first in air quality.

Among the country's 168 key cities, the top 10 in July's composite air quality index were, in order: Xiamen, Zhuhai, Haikou, Shenzhen, Zhongshan, Huangshan, Guiyang, Huizhou, Jiangmen and Lishui.

This year, Xiamen city air quality continues to improve, January to July, the concentration of six major pollutants year-on-year “four down two flat”; air quality rate of 99.5%, flat year-on-year, excellent rate of 67.1%, an increase of 13.8 percentage points.

This year, Xiamen focuses on promoting the reduction of pollution and carbon synergy, and promote the green and low-carbon development of industry. As of the end of July, Xiamen cumulative photovoltaic installed capacity of 664,000 kilowatts, of which, January-July new photovoltaic installed capacity of 134,000 kilowatts. In promoting the comprehensive management of dust pollution, January-July this year, Xiamen dust-related claims fell by 36.6% year-on-year. At the same time, Xiamen also accelerated the “electric Xiamen” construction. As of the end of July this year, the city's new energy motor vehicle ownership amounted to 199,200, pure electric motor vehicle ownership amounted to 162,800, up 39.89%, 32.9% respectively.

Source:XMTV