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From busy cities to peaceful nights, noise pollution affects our health more than you might think.
Let's dive into how China is turning down the volume and turning up the quality of life.
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Coming to you live from Beijing, this is roundtable.
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First on Todays show ever feel like the citys volume is cranked up to eleven?
With all the city hustle, bustling traffic and industrial noise, its no wonder our years are feeling the stress.
Chinas been on a mission to tackle this invisible menace with some pretty effective noise control strategies.
Whats new on the noise busting front and how is it making life better for us all?
Li Yi, please enlighten us on the key findings in China's 2024 noise pollution report.
Sure.
This is a report released by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment just recently.
According to this report, in 2023, the overall daytime noise control rate of urban acoustic environment function areas washington 96.1% and the nighttime noise control rate reaching 87%, which really suggests that we have achieved improvements compared to the previous year.
And meantime, the report also mentions for the first time, a national network of acoustic monitoring coverage was rolled out in acoustic environment function areas across most cities and counties in China.
Now a terminal acoustic environment functional error really stands out.
Please tell us what that is.