China proposes: willing to help India tackle air pollution

Recently, many areas in India, including Delhi, are facing increasingly severe air pollution problems, and even many residents have moved out due to health issues. At this time, China has proactively offered to help India deal with the serious air pollution crisis.

On November 4, Yu Jing, a spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in India, posted on a social media platform, "China once suffered from smog. We are always willing to share our experience in regaining blue skies and believe that India will also achieve this goal in the near future."

Subsequently, Yu Jing stated, "The rate of improvement in urban air quality in China is the highest in the world, thanks to policies over a decade. These include: shutting down small inefficient coal-fired boilers; relocating or closing polluting enterprises; implementing stricter emission standards for heavy industries and vehicles; vigorously developing renewable energy such as wind, solar, and hydropower; using satellite data and real-time reporting systems to monitor air quality; and imposing severe penalties for illegal emissions and data manipulation."

A non-profit research institution based in Finland, the Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), released a new report stating that India's air quality significantly deteriorated in October 2025 — by October, 255 out of 293 cities in the country had exceeded the annual PM2.5 standard set by the WHO. Moreover, the National Capital Region has become the most polluted area in the country.

On the same day, November 4, the air quality warning system in Delhi showed that the city's air quality was still at a "very poor" level, with an Air Quality Index (AQI) of 309, and the AQI at multiple monitoring stations even exceeded 400.

According to the Chinese Environmental Protection Popular Science Network, the Air Quality Index (AQI) is an important indicator widely used internationally to quantitatively evaluate the quality of environmental air. It divides air quality into excellent (0-50), good (51-100), light pollution (101-200), moderate pollution (151-200), severe pollution (201-300), and serious pollution (over 300).

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