World China menaced by officials for falsifying air quality data

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Several officials in Xi’an, Shanxi province have been arrested for falsifying air pollutionstatistics, as the deteriorating air quality might have jeopardized their careers, local mediareported on Oct. 25.

One of the officials, surnamed Li, allegedly withheld the key to a local air qualitymonitoring station, and also copied the code of the station’s computer system. Li, alongwith other employees, repeatedly sneaked into the monitoring station withoutauthorization, shielding the sensors with cotton to alter their air quality readings, reportedChinese Business View, a Xi’an-based daily newspaper.

“The air samplers should be exposed to the air to collect accurate data. Using cotton tocover them actually filters the pollutants, leading to fake data,” an anonymous insider toldChinese Business View.

The forged statistics soon came to the attention of the China National EnvironmentalMonitoring Center, which carried out a thorough investigation and found the cause of theanomaly. Li, along with several other officials, is now in custody.

“If local air quality drops, the officials who were previously in charge are likely to bepunished accordingly. Those officials falsified statistics in order to avoid beingdisciplined,” another anonymous source told Chinese Business View.

Due to the severe air pollution in China, air quality stations have been established allacross the nation to detect pollutants. Placed mostly in large cities, the stations monitorozone, nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds and meteorological parameters. Thedata is used by the country’s environmental protection authorities to understand thecauses of air pollution and monitor improvement.

Source. (People)
 
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