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Air Pollution in China (4th Edition)

A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Quality".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 514

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Xiao-San Luo

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School of Ecology and Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
Interests: environmental geochemistry and health; air pollution; atmospheric particulate matters; bioaerosols; emerging contaminants; nano-plastics; heavy metals; toxicology; risk assessments; climate change and health
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Dr. Youwei Hong

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Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361024, China
Interests: atmospheric photochemical pollution; secondary organic aerosols (SOA); source apportionments of PM2.5 and O3
Dr. Honghui Xu

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Zhejiang Institute of Meteorological Sciences, 256 Guokang Road, Hangzhou 310050, China
Interests: atmospheric chemistry; air quality; greenhouse gases and tracers observation and data analysis; sources of carbon dioxide; haze and PM2.5 formation mechanism

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue is a follow-up of the Special Issue, titled ‘Air Pollution in China (3rd Edition)’ published in Atmosphere in 2025 and will cover all aspects of Chinese atmospheric-pollution issues.

In China, serious air pollution, caused by human activities and partly natural factors, has been apparent since around the 1990s. It is worth mentioning that local air quality has greatly improved in the past decade, mainly due to progress in institutional and technical measures since the 2010s. However, the trajectory of air pollution in China is changing at present due to the compound event of photochemical and aerosol pollution, and air pollution control has thus entered a new phase.

This Special Issue, ‘Air Pollution in China (4th Edition)’ invites submissions of innovative papers that will help with the development of the Chinese atmospheric environment and the implementation of effective air pollution control strategies in the future.

Prof. Dr. Xiao-San Luo
Dr. Youwei Hong
Dr. Honghui Xu
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • air pollution and health in China
  • atmospheric fine particulate matters
  • aerosols
  • bioaerosols
  • micro/nano-plastics
  • ozone
  • emerging contaminants
  • toxicology and risk assessments
  • air pollution and climate change
  • air pollution observation in China
  • remote sensing of air pollution in China
  • numerical simulation of air pollution in China
  • air pollution prediction method in China
  • air quality management and pollution control in China

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The Beneficial Spatial Spillover Effects of China’s Carbon Emissions Trading System on Air Quality
by Diwei Zheng and Daxin Dong
Atmosphere 2025, 16(7), 819; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos16070819 - 5 Jul 2025
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Between 2013 and 2020, China had implemented a pilot cap-and-trade carbon emissions trading system (ETS) in some cities. Previous research has reported that this policy significantly reduces air pollution in the policy-implementing districts. However, whether and to what extent there are spatial spillover [...] Read more.
Between 2013 and 2020, China had implemented a pilot cap-and-trade carbon emissions trading system (ETS) in some cities. Previous research has reported that this policy significantly reduces air pollution in the policy-implementing districts. However, whether and to what extent there are spatial spillover effects of this policy on air pollution in other regions has not been sufficiently analyzed. The research objective of this study is to quantitatively assess the spatial spillover effects of China’s carbon ETS on air pollution. Based on data from 288 Chinese cities between 2005 and 2020, this study employs a multiple linear regression approach to estimate the policy effects. Our study finds that the policy significantly reduces the concentrations of black carbon (BC), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), organic carbon (OC), particulate matter less than 1 micron in size (PM1), fine particulate matter (PM2.5), and particulate matter less than 10 microns in size (PM10) in non-ETS regions. This indicates that the carbon ETS has beneficial impacts on air quality beyond the areas where the policy was implemented. The heterogeneity tests reveal that the beneficial spatial spillover effects of the ETS can be observed across cities with different levels of industrialization, population density, economic development, resource endowments, and geographical locations. Further mechanism analyses show that although the policy does not affect the degree of environmental regulation in other regions, it promotes green innovation, low-carbon energy transition, and industrial structure upgrading there, which explains the observed spatial spillover effects. Full article
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