Appendix 1: 2015 air quality ranking by province. Note, provinces marked in blue are those which met the second grade ‘National Ambient Air Quality Standard’5 of 35µg/m3.
Province 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
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Henan Beijing Hebei Tianjin Shandong Hubei Jiangsu Shanxi Anhui Chongqing Liaoning Jilin Shanghai Xinjiang Hunan Shaanxi Zhejiang Sichuan Ningxia Jiangxi Qinghai Gansu Inner Mongolia Guangxi Heilongjiang Guangdong Guizhou Fujian Yunnan Tibet Hainan
Average PM2.5 concentration 2015 (µg/m3) 80.7 80.4 77.3 71.5 66.4 65.9 56.6 56.4 55.1 55.0 55.0 54.4 53.9 53.7 52.5 52.0 47.7 46.7 45.8 42.8 42.6 41.2 41.0 40.2 39.4 34.0 31.7 28.7 28.0 25.4 19.3
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National Ambient Air Quality Standards only applies to city averages. In our analysis the second grade (35µg/m ) is used as standard for provinces.