Monitoring air quality at Shanghai
THE city’s environmental protection department will issue timely reports on the environment and air quality near and inside the Expo site, officials said at a news briefing today. Zhang Quan, director of the Shanghai Environmental Protection Bureau, said the bureau had set up 46 automatic monitoring stations to cover the whole city, including the Expo site. It had also cooperated with more than 30 cities in the Yangtze Delta to ensure timely reports about the environment and air quality, Zhang said. The bureau will issue forecasts the environment and air quality 24 hours ahead and warn of potential high pollution 48 hours in advance so that action to prevent it can be taken. (source Shanghai Daily).
