Ministry of Environmental Protection says that ambient air quality monitoring equipment must adopt domestic equipment

In the future, automatic monitoring equipment for six indicators such as PM2.5, SO2, and NO2 will preferentially select cost-effective equipment under the same conditions and purchase domestic equipment according to the relevant requirements of government procurement.

The Ministry of Environmental Protection has recently released the Implementation Plan for the Second Phase of Monitoring of New Air Quality Standards (hereinafter referred to as the “Implementation Plan”). Compared with the Implementation Plan for the First Phase Monitoring of New Air Quality Standards issued in May last year, the “Implementation Plan” The regulations stipulate that the regions that undertake the second stage of air quality monitoring and implementation tasks should, based on the requirements, prioritize the selection of cost-effective monitoring equipment and purchase domestic equipment according to the relevant requirements of government procurement. The implementation of urban air quality monitoring, including its equipment bidding, procurement, installation, commissioning and information release, is organized by the provincial (district, city) environmental protection authorities. The China Environmental Monitoring Center is responsible for formulating corresponding technical requirements and providing technical guidance.

In addition, the “Implementation Plan” requires specific implementation arrangements that by the end of July this year, the provincial (district, city) environmental protection authorities are responsible for completing the public bidding for the second phase of the area to implement all the monitoring points of the city's monitoring equipment equipment. Before the end of August, the completion of the second phase of the implementation of all bidding sites for equipment monitoring equipment in cities. The "Implementation Plan" also requires that the second stage of the implementation of the new urban air quality monitoring data networking equipment should be simultaneously tendered, simultaneously purchased, and installed and operated simultaneously with the monitoring equipment.

According to reports, the implementation scope of the Implementation Plan includes 449 monitoring sites in 116 cities, including national key environmental protection cities and model cities, and requests the launch of regional air quality automatic monitoring stations and a total of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, and Pearl River Delta regions. Construction of three regional air quality warning centers. It is understood that in the first phase of 2012, a total of 496 national air quality monitoring sites in 74 cities were implemented.

It is reported that the 2013 central government's support for the second phase of the construction of the National Environmental Air Quality Monitoring Network issued by the Ministry of Finance mainly supports the construction of new standards for the monitoring of national air quality monitoring sites in prefecture-level cities and monitoring of air quality in county-level environmental protection model cities. Data transmission and network quality control platform construction will be subsidized as appropriate.