The equivalent sound level of environmental noise in urban area is between 53.5 decibels and 65.8 decibels, and the national average is 56.5 decibels (area weighted). Among the 43 cities, 33 have sound levels over 55 decibels, among which, the equivalent sound levels in Datong, Kaifeng and Lanzhou are over 60 decibels, and the pollution is heavy.
The Yellow River is under the double pressure of pollution and disconnection. 66.7% of the rivers monitored were of class Ⅳ water quality. The main pollution indexes are ammonia nitrogen, volatile phenol, permanganate index and biochemical oxygen demand.
2.Water pollution
According to the State of the Environment Bulletin of China and the report of the Ministry of Water Resources, in 1997, the seven major water systems, lakes, reservoirs, and parts of China's groundwater were polluted to varying degrees, and the proportion of river pollution was higher than that of 1996. In the dry season, the length of polluted rivers increased by 6.3 percentage points, and the periods of high water supply increased by 5.5 percentage points. Of the more than 50,000 km of rivers assessed, 42 were polluted, of which 12.2 were seriously polluted