Last weekend, a number of national ministries, including the National Health and Family Planning Commission and the Ministry of Environmental Protection, held a press conference to respond to public concerns about smog. According to Xinhua News Agency, at the press conference held in Beijing on Friday night, Minister of Environmental Protection Chen Jining praised China's efforts in air pollution prevention measures, saying that despite the existence of economic structures such as heavy industry, relying on fossil fuels The energy structure and the unenvironmental lifestyle are huge, but China has made some improvements in environmental protection. Chen Jining said that the Ministry of Environmental Protection is assessing 20 cities' emergency plans for air pollution and hopes to improve their response.

These cities include Beijing, Tianjin, and 18 other cities in the heavily polluted Hebei Province and surrounding areas. Chen Jining revealed that the inspection found that some cities failed to take effective measures after receiving the smog warning, or the measures they took did not work. According to Chen Jining, the Ministry of Environmental Protection will check whether the local government has put its preventive measures and recommendations into action. In addition, the National Meteorological Center held a press conference on Saturday, saying that the weather conditions did not contribute to the spread of pollutants. The spread of air pollutants caused the suffocating smog in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.

According to a commentary by CCTV on its WeChat public account, the Health Planning Commission also held a press conference on the same day to inform the public about the potential health effects of smog and how to protect it in smog weather. I made some suggestions myself. According to Mao Qun'an, director of the Center for Publicity of the Health Planning Commission, the department has resolved to develop specific plans to help vulnerable groups, including the elderly and children, to resist the damage caused by smog, while setting standards for masks and air purifiers. . Similarly, according to Xinhua News Agency, at a three-hour press conference held on Saturday, Beijing’s deputy party secretary and acting mayor Cai Qi promised to take more stringent measures to improve Beijing in 2017. Air quality. Some citizens expressed concern about smog-related rumors and online pseudo-scientific posts, and Cai Qi said that he would work hard to eliminate rumors and provide more accurate information to the public.