According to a new World Bank report on air pollution, China remains on top next to India in terms of the level of hazardous air particles, the PM 2.5.

Reports shows that annual exposure to PM 2.5 particles of China already reached to 73 micrograms per cubic metre, seven times higher to World Health Organization's (WHO's) annual mean recommended. For India, otherwise, was close to the global average for PM 2.5 levels, with an annual mean of 32 micrograms per cubic metre of said particles, according to Time China.

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According to the two senior directors of the World Bank, in their foreword to The Little Green Data Book 2015, "These data shows that in many parts of the world exposure to air pollution is increasing at an alarming rate and has become the main environmental threat to health".

 "Exposure to ambient PM 2.5 pollution in 2010 resulted in more than 3.2 million premature deaths globally", they've added.

Beijing authorities held a press conference to address what have English-speaking residents reflected about the so called "Airpocalypse".

 The agent of Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau, Zhang Dawei blamed the dirty-dishwater-hued on a toxic coal-fired combination power plant, heavy industries, vehicle emissions and the lack of wind to clear the air. The local government have ordered that some factories and construction sites to idle, while the roads are being banned to certain government vehicles, according to Today Online.

Zhang added at the conference that the situation was even worse in some suburbs of Beijing."More than 100 million people in China (including 20 million or so in Beijing) have breathed unsafe air last weekend and it doesn't make feel any better", Zhang added.

 According to the World Bank, "We already know that 16 of the 20th most polluted cities in the World are here in China". Previously, the official reactions to bad-air days has tended toward denial or wounded aggression, according to Time.

Due to the U.S. embassy in Beijing's pesky habit of doing its own monitoring of particulate matter smaller than 2.5 micrometers in diameter, rather than the larger PM 10 measurement, the Chinese officials have grumbled about foreign meddling that the Chinese government had until recently used.

However, some health experts believed that finer particles are even more dangerous from our lungs than those bigger ones. Last year from a study co-sponsored by Peking University, it was found out that about 8,500 premature deaths, including Beijing, was linked to pollution occurred in four Chinese cities.

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