Objectives:
•To complete the local AQMS facility providing data collection analysis and elaboration;
•To provide direct and rapid transfer of innovation in the field of air pollution monitoring;
•To carry out an extensive training program on AQMS
•To build a model for the management of the AQMS service in other Chinese cities;
•To support Chinese authorities in the policy making process to elaborate appropriate guidelines in the field of Air Quality;
•To build up a feasible economic and financial model to facilitate the investment for the AQMS service in other Chinese cities;
•To enforce public health protection, including accurate and precise data collection for epidemiological or long and short trend studies;
•To achieve an Italian technology transfer and to build up Chinese scientific and capacity and capability;
•To be coherent with Chinese sustainable development strategies;
•To ensure integration of economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development in the design and implementation of the project.

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Total Budget:
€1.500.000

Funding Sources / Donors:
1. Italian Ministry of the Environment and Territory
2. CNR-IIA
3. China SEPA

Funding Type:
• TA

Status of Project: Ongoing
Ongoing since 2004

Implementing Agencies:
-Foreign Economy Cooperation Office (FECO) of the China State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) Municipality of Lanzhou/Lanzhou Environmental Protection agency/Lanzhou Environmental Monitoring Center

Regions Covered:
• East Asia

Countries Covered:
• China

Cities Covered:
• Lanzhou