Guizhou's natural environment ranks among top in China

The Ministry of Ecology and Environment recently released a report on China's air and water quality from January to June. The report shows that various areas in Southwest China's Guizhou province ranked among China's top in terms of air and water quality.

Among the air quality rankings of 168 cities, Guizhou's provincial capital of Guiyang ranked 12th. Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture ranked third nationally for water quality.

During the first six months of this year, Guizhou's nine main cities saw 98 percent of days having excellent or good air quality, 97.5 percent of Guizhou's 119 State-controlled sections of surface water had excellent and good water quality, and all centralized drinking water sources above county level reached national water quality standards.