In order to strengthen a ban on straw burning in North China’s Hebei Province, local governments have installed 4,336 cameras and infrared alarm systems to monitor such behavior.

　　为了加强河北省对秸秆焚烧的禁令的执行，当地政府已经安装了4336台摄像头和红外报警系统来监控违规行为。

　　The thermal imaging cameras are high definition within a radius of three to five kilometers. The municipal level and the county level cities in Hebei have built visual intelligent monitoring platforms with staff on duty 24 hours every day.

　　此次安装的热成像摄像头在3到5公里的半径范围内拥有高清晰度。河北省市级和县级市建立了全天24小时值班的可视化智能监控平台。

　　Since April, the environmental protection authorities in Hebei Province have started the work of planning, designing and installing monitoring equipment in eight cities that experience particularly severe pollution, two counties and Xiongan New Area.

　　今年4月以来，河北省环境保护部门已开始在污染特别严重的8个城市、2个县和熊安新区开展监测设备的规划、设计和安装工作。

　　Such work was carried out based on the policy of installation along the high-speed train routes and highways first, aiming to cover the whole farmland on the plains.

　　这项工作是在高铁线路和高速公路沿线安装政策的基础上进行的，目的是覆盖平原上的全部农田。

　　Any alarm indicating straw burning can be assigned to the relevant authority within five minutes and dealt with within three hours. The shortest time of disposal of a case was only 15 minutes.

　　秸秆焚烧报警装置可在5分钟内向相关部门报警，3小时内处理。处理案件的时间最短仅为15分钟。

　　Over 60 percent of cases of open-air straw burning can be found with the help of the videos and photos offered by the monitoring system. This makes it easier to target suspects.

　　利用监控系统提供的视频和照片，可以发现60%以上的露天秸秆燃烧案件。这样就更容易锁定嫌犯。

　　The open-air burning of straw, leaves and weeds used to bring air pollution problems to the northern regions in China. The Ministry of Ecology and Environment found Hebei had serious problems with large-scale straw burning during its inspection this June.

　　露天焚烧稻草、树叶和杂草给中国北方地区带来了严重的空气污染问题。在今年6月的检查中，生态环境部发现河北省大规模焚烧秸秆的问题非常严重。