South Korea and China looking to cooperate to reduce fine dust
- 5 years ago
It's believed that using coal for power leads to high levels of fine dust in Northeast Asia.
And South Korea's Trade Minister is visiting China to discuss this issue.
Seo Bo-bin reports In a recent OECD report on fine dust pollution, South Korea and China were listed in the five countries with the worst air pollution in the world in 2017, and it was mentioned that the cause of pollution was coal used for power generation.
As South Korea and China are heavy users of coal power plants, the two countries have decided to cooperate to reduce fine dust coming from coal power generation.
On Wednesday, The Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Sung Yun-mo visited Beijing and met with the head of the Markets Supervision Administration Zhang Mao and the director of the National Energy Administration Zhang Jianhua to discuss cooperation in the field.
During the meeting, Minister Sung stressed that although the two countries are working to expand their use of renewable energy to reduce coal power generation, there still needs more effort between the two countries in order to reduce fine dust and greenhouse gases.
The two countries are looking to hold a South Korea-China joint technology development forum and expect to cooperate to systemize the improvement of coal power generation facilities so that these facilities produce less fine dust.
Seo Bo-bin, Arirang News.
And South Korea's Trade Minister is visiting China to discuss this issue.
Seo Bo-bin reports In a recent OECD report on fine dust pollution, South Korea and China were listed in the five countries with the worst air pollution in the world in 2017, and it was mentioned that the cause of pollution was coal used for power generation.
As South Korea and China are heavy users of coal power plants, the two countries have decided to cooperate to reduce fine dust coming from coal power generation.
On Wednesday, The Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Sung Yun-mo visited Beijing and met with the head of the Markets Supervision Administration Zhang Mao and the director of the National Energy Administration Zhang Jianhua to discuss cooperation in the field.
During the meeting, Minister Sung stressed that although the two countries are working to expand their use of renewable energy to reduce coal power generation, there still needs more effort between the two countries in order to reduce fine dust and greenhouse gases.
The two countries are looking to hold a South Korea-China joint technology development forum and expect to cooperate to systemize the improvement of coal power generation facilities so that these facilities produce less fine dust.
Seo Bo-bin, Arirang News.