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Air quality in Chinese cities improved in the first two months of the year, according to the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE), Xinhua News Agency reported on April 5.

For 339 cities monitored by the ministry, the share of good air quality days stood at 81.9 percent in the January-February period, up 1.5 percentage points year on year, MEE data showed.

The average PM2.5 density, a key indicator of air pollution, dropped by 2.1 percent year on year to 47 micrograms per cubic meter, and the average density of PM10 shrank 15.4 percent year

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