MEIC team reveals the drivers of China’s air quality improvement in recent years

Since the implementation of “the Action Plan”, The estimated national population–weighted annual mean PM2.5 concentrations decreased from 61.8 to 42.0μg/m3, which represents a 32% reduction.

The MEIC group coupled various models to quantify relationship between household consumption and air pollution-related premature deaths

Urban household consumption in China contributed to 20% of China total anthropogenic PM2.5-related mortality in 2012, and were dominated by indirect emissions arising from products consumption. While rural household contributed 24%, dominated by direct emissions from solid fuel combustion.

Hongyan Zhao

MIX Asian emission inventory was developed by the MEIC team

MEIC team recently released an Asian emission inventory, MIX, in years of 2008 and 2010. MIX was developed to provide up-to-date model-ready emissions for multiple chemical transport models and climate models.

Meng Li