Abstract
Building a healthy city is our goal. Herein, we take Beijing as an example to elaborate the aspects of air pollution governance, air quality status and causes, and urban planning response. Especially after 2008, the Beijing Olympic experience transformed China’s national policy for air pollution governance. Compared with 2013, the air pollution in Beijing improved significantly in 2018. In Beijing, the number of haze days in 2018 was 83 days, which is 38 days less than the 121 days on average in each of the past 4 years, a reduction of 31.4%. Beijing is surrounded by mountains on three sides, the arc-shaped mountains formed by the Taihang Mountains and the Yanshan Mountains lead to low air mobility in the warm sector of the mountain front and the accumulation of pollutants in front of the arc-shaped mountains. Local emissions account for two thirds of the main source of annual PM2.5 emissions in Beijing, and the other one third of the main sources is regional transport. As the pollution level increased, the regional transport contribution showed a significant upward trend. The Beijing Urban Master Plan (2016–2035) was approved in 2017, integrating the improvement of environmental air quality and adaptation to climate change into urban planning, and design is an important part of the implementation of strategic positioning.
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Fang, X. et al. (2021). Air Pollution Prevention and Urban Planning Response: Building a Healthy Beijing. In: Ren, C., McGregor, G. (eds) Urban Climate Science for Planning Healthy Cities. Biometeorology, vol 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87598-5_8
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