Air quality issue such as particulate matter pollution (PM 2.5 and PM 10) has become one of the biggest environmental problem in China. As one of the most important industrial base and economic core regions of China, Northeast China is facing serious air pollution problems in recent years, which has a profound impact on the health of local residents and atmospheric environment in some part of East Asia. Therefore, it is urgent to understand temporal-spatial characteristics of particles and analyze the causality factors. The results demonstrated that variation trend of particles was almost similar, the annual, monthly and daily distribution had their own characteristics. Particles decreased gradually from south to north, from west to east. Correlation analysis showed that wind speed was the most important factor affecting particles, and temperature, air pressure and relative humidity were key factors in some seasons. Path analysis showed that there was complex unidirectional causal relationship between particles and individual or combined effects, and NO 2 and CO were key factors affecting PM 2.5. The hot and cold areas changed little with the seasons. All the above results suggests that planning the industrial layout, adjusting industrial structure, joint prevention and control were necessary measure to reduce particles concentration. Air pollution has become one of the severe environmental problems in China. People in China have to cope with high levels of PM 2.5 (Particulate matter smaller than 2.5 micrometers in diameter). It not only induces the increase of low-visibility days 1-3 , but also penetrates lungs and does harm to respiration, cardiovascular, cerebral vascular and nervous systems 4-7. Studies show that atmospheric particulate matter is closely related to mortality for lots of causes 8-11. In addition, Particulate matter possibly has large influence on regional and global climate change 12-14 , ecosystems 15 , economic development 16 and so on. Thus, Chinese government has established air quality monitoring stations in many cities to monitor pollutants (including PM 2.5 , PM 10 , SO 2 , NO 2 , CO and O 3) mass concentration, published the relative observed data online from January 2013. These air quality data played an important role on analyzing local air pollution situation and establishing air pollutant mass concentration prediction model 17. As previous studies have shown, pollutants sources emission, external transport, meteorological conditions and secondary generation of air pollution were important factors influencing atmospheric particulate matter mass concentration. In particular, meteorological conditions can diffuse, dilute and accumulate air pollutant mass concentration at a large extent. Secondary generation will aggravate air pollutants mass concentration 18,19. Therefore, the study of the distribution characteristics of air pollutants, the relationship between meteorological conditions and air pollutants mass concentration, as well as the relationship between different air pollutants...