China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) has criticized inadequate responses to the heavy smog that descended upon northern China last week, South China Morning Post reported. Inspection teams sent to Beijing, Tianjin, Shijiazhuang, Langfang, Baoding, Xingtai, Hengshui and Handan found that the average air pollution index exceeded 300 from last Wednesday to Friday, a level that is considered hazardous. Local governments carried out emergency measures such as suspending factory production, reducing the amount of cars on the road, and banning trash burning, but the EMP called some of these efforts – particularly those in Hebei – “too formulaic, without coordination,” and added that in some areas they “failed to be well implemented.”
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