Correlation of Building Heating and Air Qualities in Typical Cities of China

Abstract Building heating causes the huge energy consumption, as well as severe environmental problems, especially the air pollution in China. As the tremendous differences between the north and the south in climate, building type, living habits and so forth in China, the heating system is so different that it influences the local air quality distinctively. The previous works of literatures mostly focused on the correlation of heating and the air quality in a certain region, but rarely on the impact of the regional feature on the correlation of the two subjects. Hence, in this paper, adopting household investigation, literature analysis, and statistical analysis, the correlation and the regional difference of the air pollution and the building heating were compared and analyzed based on the data collected from 604 households covering 22 provinces in China in 2016. The research can provide the evidence for the government to make more rational strategies to optimize the current heating system and improve the heating-season air quality.