By Timon Singh / Source: Inhabitat

China’s urban pollution levels are infamous and as such, the country has launched a ‘war on pollution’ in order to combat the dangerous levels of emissions. Unfortunately, the war is not going well as China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection announced that nearly 90 percent of the country’s major cities have failed to meet air quality standards set for 2014.

Despite the abysmal rate, it is still an improvement on last year’s results, as the country’s attempts to curb emissions slowly but surely take effect. According to the Ministry of Environmental Protection’s website only eight of China’s 74 cities managed to meet national standards on a series of pollution measures, which includes regular readings of particles found in the air, carbon monoxide and ozone.

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