Clear Break: China's Air Pollution Changes Amid the COVID-19 Outbreak
Wang, Xiaoyan ; Zhang, Renhe
How Did Air Pollution Change during the COVID-19 Outbreak in China?
The nationwide antivirus battle in China brought great changes to personal daily life and society operation, and caused a huge challenge to some sensitive sectors, including transportation, tourism, retail, and entertainment, which lead to GDP decreasing by 6.8% in the first quarter of 2020 (National Bureau of Statistics 2020). But on the other hand, many regions in China have been suffering from severe air pollution in recent years. A drastic drop of air pollutant emissions occurring with the national lockdown improved the human living environments greatly (Patel 2020). The nationwide lockdown can be considered as an ideal and unique field experiment for the prevention and control of current severe air pollution. It is still unclear how the air quality changes during the lockdown period and what we should learn about air pollution mitigation from this nationwide ideal experiment.</p>
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