Pollution characteristics, sources, and risk assessment of heavy metals and perfluorinated compounds in PM2.5 in the major industrial city of northern Xinjiang, China

Chen, Jiadeng; Lu, Jianjiang; Ning, Jianying; Yan, Yongsheng; Li, Shanman; Zhou, Li

doi:10.1007/s11869-019-00706-8

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“…The situation has further aggravated the already dark sky in Urumqi since lack of desulphurization alone contributes nearly 70,000 t of toxic gases per year since the 1950s. Urumqi has a lot of underground coal fires which are hazardous because it cause cave-in when the coal turns to soft ash below the surface [40]. The 2017 Xinjiang Statistical Yearbook showed that Urumqi recorded the worst NO 2 and SO 2 and the third worst PM 10 levels among all major cities in China in 2017 (State of Ecology and Environment Report Review, 2020).…”

Section: Air Pollution Challenges Facing Chinamentioning

confidence: 99%

Progressing towards Environmental Health Targets in China: An Integrative Review of Achievements in Air and Water Pollution under the “Ecological Civilisation and the Beautiful China” Dream

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Zhou

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Despite the positive effect of industrialisation on health and quality of life indicators across the globe, it is also responsible for the release of chemical toxins into the environment. Thus, the pursuit of economic development through industrialisation has equally nurtured numerous environmental disasters with accompanying catastrophic health effects. China is one of the countries with high carbon emissions, but new policy changes have resulted in massive gains in controlling environmental damage while enhancing the environment-related quality of life. This paper combines the six-step integrative review strategy with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) strategy to determine appropriate exclusion and inclusion criteria to explore the available stock of literature. We note that overall pollution in China fell by 10% between 2014 and 2019 whereas the average fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentration of 93 micrograms per cubic meter reduced by 47% by 2019. Beijing exhibited the top 200 most polluted cities in 2019 after recording the lowest PM2.5 ever. All cities that implemented the 2012 Environmental Air Quality Standards reduced the average concentration of PM2.5 and sulfur dioxide by 42–68% by the end of 2018. Improvements in freshwater quality and a decline in water pollution levels were recorded despite increases in economic growth, urbanisation, energy use, trade openness, and agriculture, all of which are major stimulants of pollution. Deterring environmental tariff, tight ecological inspections, closing down of non-compliant producers, heavy investment in environmental control, and the ambitious five year-plan to revitalise renewable energy goals emanating from China’s ecological civilisation masterplan are responsible for these improvements in air and water pollution. China needs to work more aggressively to consolidate the gains already made in order to quicken the actualisation of the ecological civilisation and beautiful China dream.

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Progressing towards Environmental Health Targets in China: An Integrative Review of Achievements in Air and Water Pollution under the “Ecological Civilisation and the Beautiful China” Dream

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“…This leads to high retention of SO 2 particles (Li, Huang et al 2020). The situation has further aggravated the already dark sky in Urumqi since lack of desulphurization alone contributes nearly 70,000 tons of toxic gases per year since the 1950s.Urumqi has a lot of underground coal res which are hazardous because it cause cave-in when the coal turns to soft ash below the surface (Chen, Lu et al 2019 .Lanzhou is the capital city of Gansu province in north-western China. Lanzhou city also features prominently in the air pollution in China.…”

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Progressing Towards Environmental Health Targets in China: A Systematic Review of Achievements in Air and Water Pollution under the “Ecological Civilization and the Beautiful China” Dream

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2020

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Despite the positive effect of industrialization on health and quality of life indicators across the globe, it is also responsible for the release of chemical toxins into the environment and has nurtured numerous environmental disasters with severe health effects. China alone produces more than a third of carbon emissions in the world and currently has the second highest number of pollution-related deaths, after India. There is no issue that underscores the challenges of environmental crisis in China than the gradual acceptance of the existence of the cancer villages. These are entire towns that have been completely written off as so polluted that simply living there is synonymous with high rate of cancer risk. For years, residents and advocacy groups in villages such as Wuli, Yanglingang, Yangqiao and additional 459 identified cancer villages have waged a desperate war to turn the attention of government to the high risk of stomach, liver, kidney and colon cancer in these areas located near heavy industrial complexes. China responded by promoting an ecological civilization and a beautiful China dream as its sustainability blueprint in 2012. Today, this blueprint has been engraved into the national ideology for socio-economic and political orientation. This review therefore revisits the progress made towards environmental health targets under China’s sustainable development strategy. The study systematic explores the extant works on air and water pollution since the “Ecological Civilization and the Beautiful China” Dream.

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“…Existing research mainly focuses on chemical characteristics analysis and source apportionment of PM 2.5 pollutants in individual cities of Xinjiang. For example, Chen et al [32] investigated the sources of heavy metals (HMs) and per fluorinated compounds (PFCs) in PM 2.5 in Urumqi and Shihezi, two of the major industrial cities in northern Xinjiang. Turap et al [30] measured the major components of ambient PM 2.5 in four seasons in Dushanzi, finding that the mixing of anthropogenic aerosol sources and dust were the main sources of PM 2.5 .…”

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“…Unfortunately, to the best of our knowledge, almost no research has been done to analyze PM 2.5 spatial distribution and its driving factors from a regional perspective in Xinjiang [32][33][34]. Xinjiang is the largest administrative region as well as the largest arid land in China, where there are less precipitation and vegetation distributions.…”

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Spatio-Temporal Variations of Satellite-Based PM2.5 Concentrations and Its Determinants in Xinjiang, Northwest of China

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Abuduwaili

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With the aggravation of air pollution in recent years, a great deal of research on haze episodes is mainly concentrated on the east-central China. However, fine particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution in northwest China has rarely been discussed. To fill this gap, based on the standard deviational ellipse analysis and spatial autocorrelation statistics method, we explored the spatio-temporal variation and aggregation characteristics of PM2.5 concentrations in Xinjiang from 2001 to 2016. The result showed that annual average PM2.5 concentration was high both in the north slope of Tianshan Mountain and the western Tarim Basin. Furthermore, PM2.5 concentrations on the northern slope of the Tianshan Mountain increased significantly, while showing an obviously decrease in the western Tarim Basin during the period of 2001–2016. Based on the result of the geographical detector method (GDM), population density was the most dominant factor of the spatial distribution of PM2.5 concentrations (q = 0.550), followed by road network density (q = 0.423) and GDP density (q = 0.413). During the study period (2001–2016), the driving force of population density on the distribution of PM2.5 concentrations showed a gradual downward trend. However, other determinants, like DEM (Digital elevation model), NSL (Nighttime stable light), LCT (Land cover type), and NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index), show significant increased trends. Therefore, further effort is required to reveal the role of landform and vegetation in the spatio-temporal variations of PM2.5 concentrations. Moreover, the local government should take effective measures to control urban sprawl while accelerating economic development.

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Pollution characteristics, sources, and risk assessment of heavy metals and perfluorinated compounds in PM2.5 in the major industrial city of northern Xinjiang, China

Cited by 19 publications

References 32 publications

Progressing towards Environmental Health Targets in China: An Integrative Review of Achievements in Air and Water Pollution under the “Ecological Civilisation and the Beautiful China” Dream

Progressing towards Environmental Health Targets in China: An Integrative Review of Achievements in Air and Water Pollution under the “Ecological Civilisation and the Beautiful China” Dream

Progressing Towards Environmental Health Targets in China: A Systematic Review of Achievements in Air and Water Pollution under the “Ecological Civilization and the Beautiful China” Dream

Spatio-Temporal Variations of Satellite-Based PM2.5 Concentrations and Its Determinants in Xinjiang, Northwest of China

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