Beijing, China, December 20 (Xinhua) According to the Voice of China report, Qin Guan, a poet in the Northern Song Dynasty, wrote in his first poem, "The fog is lost, the moon is lost, and Taoyuan is nowhere to be found." These days, Huang Huai in North China is really the same as what he wrote. Yesterday morning, the smog affecting northern China entered the most serious stage. At present, there is still no sign of dissipation. Satellite monitoring shows that the influence of the smog has expanded to 17 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, covering an area of 1.42 million square kilometers, which means that more than one-seventh of the country is shrouded in smog. At some monitoring points in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, the PM2.5 index once exceeded 1000, which made people stunned.
A total of 23 cities in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan and other provinces have issued red warnings for heavy pollution weather and launched first-level emergency response measures. The Ministry of Environmental Protection urgently dispatched 13 inspection teams to supervise the emergency response of heavily polluted weather in 23 cities.
According to the introduction of Beijing Municipal Transportation Commission, during the red warning period, the ground bus is expected to increase passenger flow by 500,000 passengers. In order to ensure the public’s public transportation, the ground bus will increase the transportation support. It is planned to increase 3,600 trips per day, arrange 320 standby buses, and give priority to dispatching more than 1,000 pure electric buses to operate on the road. Arrange standby capacity of not less than 5% of the total in key lines and micro-circulation lines. The person in charge of the operation of Beijing Public Transport Group said: "The transportation capacity of urban lines and suburban lines will be increased by 2%. At the same time, management personnel will be organized to maintain the passenger flow order at the first and last stations of the line."
During the interview, the reporter found that since Beijing started the red warning of heavy air pollution, the morning and evening peaks of working days, due to the implementation of motor vehicle single and double number restrictions, ground vehicles are relatively smooth, while the subway has a large passenger flow. As the subway passenger flow is expected to increase significantly, rail transit will prepare at least three groups of reserve vehicles on key operating lines in advance. According to the passenger flow changes of each line and station, additional passenger trains will be opened in time to ensure sufficient capacity under the condition of large passenger flow. Under this safeguard measure, during the red warning period of heavy pollution, there was no serious passenger detention in the morning and evening rush hours of Beijing subway, and the citizens also fully understood and cooperated with the temporary traffic management measures taken to deal with heavy air pollution. "Respond to the government’s call and don’t drive."
The eyes turned to the province most affected by this round of smog: Hebei. As long as Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei issues a haze warning, Shijiazhuang is basically indispensable. The heavily polluted weather from 16th was further aggravated yesterday. In addition to Shijiazhuang, the air quality indexes of Xinji and Handan also showed "off the charts". Among them, Shijiazhuang is the most polluted. Yesterday (19th), the monitoring points of "Century Park" in the urban area both exceeded 1000 μ g/m3.
Some Shijiazhuang residents said that they were choked by the strong smell of soot when they went out yesterday and kept coughing. Moreover, the office area of the unit is hazy and the indoor air pollution is also very serious. Many netizens posted pictures on the Internet, poking fun at their familiar high-rise buildings, all of which were "missing". Citizens have put on masks, and netizens have called smog "spicy eyes."
At the atmospheric monitoring point of Shijiazhuang Century Park, the capital of Hebei Province, the latest data shows that the concentration of PM2.5 and PM10 at this monitoring point is 498 and 763, respectively. At 12 noon yesterday, the concentrations of PM2.5 and PM10 were over 1,000, while at other times, the concentrations of PM2.5 and PM10 were around 600 to 700. According to the staff of Hebei Environmental Department, the data in a certain time period cannot represent all, and it is more scientific to look at the overall data of the whole day.
It is understood that Shijiazhuang and Handan in Hebei Province are still in the state of off the charts at 6 o’clock this morning, and most other cities have reached the level of severe or serious pollution, which is not only related to corporate emissions. Shijiazhuang is located at the foot of Taihang Mountain, and this terrain is not easy to spread pollutants. In addition, pollutants transported between regions will also remain difficult to spread. Therefore, although a series of emission reduction measures have been taken, smog weather does not mean that it will disappear immediately.
It is reported that ten cities in Hebei have implemented the policy of free riding of urban buses and increased the transportation capacity to 10%-30% after starting the motor vehicle restriction, which not only increases the number of buses, but also shortens the departure interval and greatly improves the capacity of transporting passengers, especially in the morning and evening rush hours. Others choose to carpool with friends to work.
Yesterday, almost the whole province of Shandong was shrouded in smog, among which 6 cities were seriously polluted, 10 cities were heavily polluted, and 16 cities in the province issued haze warnings. The reporter visited several shopping malls in Jinan, and the products of various brands such as air purifiers, anti-haze masks and anti-haze screens were in short supply. The so-called "ash-absorbing artifacts" such as green radish and dripping Guanyin were also popular among the public.
As of last night, a total of 1767 enterprises in the province stopped production and 2036 construction sites stopped work. The environmental protection department has also launched law enforcement supervision to crack down on environmental violations.
According to the data of Shandong Provincial Environmental Protection Department, as of 6: 30 this morning, six cities such as Linyi, Rizhao and Jining were seriously polluted, and six cities such as Zibo and Dezhou were heavily polluted. On the high-speed side, 342 toll stations of Shandong Expressway were temporarily closed or restricted. On the airport side, due to the influence of smog, as of 6: 30 this morning, about 20 flights of Jinan Yaoqiang International Airport were delayed and 2,000 people were stranded at the airport.
At 9: 30 last night, the Shandong Meteorological Observatory upgraded its early warning, and both the foggy orange warning and the hazy orange warning were upgraded to red warnings. The meteorological department of Shandong Province predicted that there would still be heavy fog in northwestern Shandong, northern central Shandong and the peninsula this morning, and the visibility in some areas was less than 200 meters. However, starting from this evening, most parts of the province will usher in a rainfall process, and the weather is expected to gradually improve.
At present, Dezhou, Liaocheng and Heze issued a yellow warning and started a Class I response to heavy pollution. Dezhou, Shandong Province first issued a red warning, and began to restrict traffic on the 16th. The urban and suburban junctions were restricted by even and odd numbers. Jinan continued to launch a Class II response to heavy pollution, and the traffic police department dispatched mounted police to patrol all places in the morning and evening rush hours.
Yesterday, Anyang, Puyang, Zhengzhou and other places in Henan continued to usher in heavy polluted weather. The Henan Provincial Office for the Prevention and Control of Air Pollution issued an urgent notice on emergency response to heavy polluted weather, requiring relevant cities to respond according to the actual situation. The red warning of polluted weather can take measures such as suspension of classes and restrictions.
It is reported that a few days ago, Zhengzhou City has ushered in serious pollution. Zhengzhou City Education Bureau implemented measures to suspend classes in primary schools and kindergartens in the city, but last night it strengthened emergency plans. In order to protect students’ health, Zhengzhou City Education Bureau decided that all primary and secondary schools in the city, including high schools and kindergartens, will suspend classes from November 20 th to 21 ST. Not only in Zhengzhou, but also in Puyang City, the emergency red I-level warning response to heavy pollution weather is also launched. The primary and secondary schools and kindergartens in the city will suspend classes for two days from yesterday to the 20 th. On December 24th and 25th, classes will be held normally. Because students have heavy schoolwork at the end of the term, students will also stop studying during the suspension period. For example, the school will arrange homework by calling students through school newsletter.
In the face of persistent bad smog weather, many places in Henan have implemented single and even number restrictions, and some cities that have already restricted the number in the early stage are now upgraded again. Many cities were restricted for a few days before, but now measures have been changed, and the single and even number restrictions have been implemented until the end of the year. During the number restrictions, in order to ensure everyone’s travel, some cities have opened free buses. If the restricted buses cannot meet the demand, the government will allocate vehicles at any time and increase the frequency.
Last night, Ma Xuekuan, chief forecaster of the Central Meteorological Observatory, said that the meteorological reason for the smog formation was mainly that since mid-December, the cold air force in the northern region was weak, the activities were few, and the ground wind was small, which easily led to the accumulation of pollutants near the ground; In addition, the topographical conditions in North China are also quite special. The west and north are surrounded by mountains, and the topography is relatively "closed", which is not conducive to the diffusion of pollutants.
It is predicted that until tomorrow (21st) night, the smog weather will gradually weaken or dissipate from north to south due to the influence of a cold air. Looking forward to, the day after tomorrow, that is, wake up early in the morning on the 22 nd, and usher in a long-lost blue sky! (Reporter Liu Tiansi Hebei Taiwan reporter Qu Guanhua Shandong Taiwan reporter Yu Huishi Henan Taiwan reporter Pan Yuyi)
