When is the heavy pollution weather expected to end in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei and surrounding areas?

The Ministry of Environmental Protection informed the media yesterday afternoon that since March 14, there has been heavy polluted weather in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei and its surrounding areas. Until the 24th, with the arrival of a cold air, the pollution process in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and surrounding areas could be ended.

The details are as follows: The monitoring data shows that the daily average air quality in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and its surrounding areas of Tianjin, Shijiazhuang, Baoding, Langfang and Jincheng reached serious pollution on March 18. As of March 19 15, the hourly concentration of air quality in Beijing, Tianjin, Shijiazhuang, Langfang and Xinzhou reached serious pollution.

The environmental monitoring department predicts that the air quality in the central and southern cities of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei will improve from today due to the influence of precipitation in surrounding areas and northeast airflow. It is expected that the air quality in Beijing will improve this afternoon. However, from 2/kloc-0 to 23, light to moderate polluted weather will appear again in the above areas. Until the 24th, with the arrival of cold air, the pollution process will end.

Investigate and deal with the illegal resumption of production of "scattered pollution" enterprises.

In response to polluted weather, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and surrounding cities have successively launched early warning measures. At the same time, the Ministry of Environmental Protection, together with environmental protection departments in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong and Henan, conducted special inspections on air pollution control in key cities and found 202 environmental problems. The problems found in the inspection, such as illegal resumption of production of scattered pollution enterprises, abnormal operation of pollution control facilities in some enterprises, falsification of online monitoring data, and inadequate control of dust pollution in enterprises' factories, were reported to the local government for rectification within a time limit.