In 1998 the World Bank gave Taiyuan the unhappy accolade of being one of the world’s most polluted cities.
China was sufficiently concerned about this to put in to its 10th Five Year Plan, for 2000 to 2005, a call for sulphur dioxide emissions in the city to be halved over that timeframe. Shanxi’s provincial government applied to the Asian Development Bank for a loan and technical assistance, aiming at bringing in the use of market-based instruments for air-quality management, and strengthening the ability of provincial agencies to implement them.
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