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Annual variation of heavily polluted days (HPDs) over (a) China, (b) BTH, (c) YRD and (d) PRD regions. The PM2.5 concentrations at 74 main cities were used in the statistics. A heavily polluted day is defined as a daily averaged PM2.5 concentration >150 μg m−3 in the region.
