Car exhaust hazard bared

For the first time, the Ministry of Environmental Protection has published the figures of motor vehicle exhaust emissions. The total amount of fumes discharged from motor vehicles in 2009 was more than 50 million tons. The air quality in a third of the 113 key cities for environmental protection does not reach the required standard. Acid rains and heavy smog occur frequently in some major cities.
Compared with the early 1980s, the number of motor vehicles has increased by 25 times and reached 170 million in 2009. But in the past 10 years, standards for car exhaust emissions have been upgraded. The amount of fumes discharged from new cars manufactured in 2009 decreased by 90% compared with cars of the same type manufactured in 2000.
English.News.cn reports that the total number of cars manufactured and sold exceeded 13 million from January to September this year.