City report · Guangdong, China
Shaping Air quality today
Air quality in Shaping currently reads AQI 102 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
AQI 102
Air quality right now
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 35.8
- tree cover
- 23.2%
- trees in this area
- 71.6K
- more trees needed
- 36.4K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Heshan, Jiangmen, Guangdong Province, China (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 20, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Shaping · AQI 102 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)
Shaping's tree count comes to 71,573 trees across 12.34 km² of land, 12 points below the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 36,404 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Shaping today: AQI 102, Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 23:00 local time via World Air Quality Index Project ground stations, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Ground station · 桂北邨, (江门市桂北邨), 600 m away · median of 4 stations
Health signal
Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
PM2.5
35.8
PM10
66.1
NO₂
—
O₃
—
SO₂
—
CO
—
Data: World Air Quality Index Project, Guangdong Environmental Protection public network (广东环境保护公众网)
- Outdoor exercise
- Children, older adults and people with asthma or heart disease should cut down long or hard exercise
- Windows
- Close them to keep the outside air out
- Mask
- Sensitive groups: an N95 outdoors
- Air purifier
- Run one, especially in bedrooms
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Shaping's daily AQI at 83 on average, from 52 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 159 on Nov 6.
Where Shaping stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Shaping: Below target
23.2% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.34 km² of land.
Trees in this area
71,573
Target trees
107,977
More trees needed
36,404
CO₂ if planted / yr
800.9 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Shaping lost?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Shaping has lost about 1,300 hectares of forest (about 1,800 football pitches): 27% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it was lost to logging, so much of it can grow back. About 149 hectares (11%) was deforestation: forest cleared for good for farms, mines or towns.
2017: satellite photo from January 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area about 7 km south of the city center.
- Forest lost since 2001
- 1,300 haabout 1,800 football pitches
- Share of its forest
- 27%of what there was in 2000
- Cleared for good
- 149 hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
Forest loss is slowing down: about 62 hectares a year in 2021–2025, down from 88 hectares a year in 2016–2020. The worst year was 2019, when about 122 hectares of forest were lost.
Hectares of forest lost each year
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| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | under 1 ha | 20 ha | 21 ha |
| 2002 | under 1 ha | 11 ha | 11 ha |
| 2003 | under 1 ha | 3 ha | 3 ha |
| 2004 | 2 ha | 22 ha | 23 ha |
| 2005 | 5 ha | 18 ha | 23 ha |
| 2006 | 5 ha | 23 ha | 28 ha |
| 2007 | 7 ha | 50 ha | 57 ha |
| 2008 | 4 ha | 8 ha | 11 ha |
| 2009 | 6 ha | 29 ha | 35 ha |
| 2010 | 11 ha | 36 ha | 47 ha |
| 2011 | 9 ha | 31 ha | 40 ha |
| 2012 | 4 ha | 41 ha | 44 ha |
| 2013 | 6 ha | 38 ha | 44 ha |
| 2014 | 7 ha | 67 ha | 74 ha |
| 2015 | 5 ha | 83 ha | 87 ha |
| 2016 | 4 ha | 104 ha | 108 ha |
| 2017 | 3 ha | 99 ha | 102 ha |
| 2018 | 9 ha | 61 ha | 70 ha |
| 2019 | 3 ha | 119 ha | 122 ha |
| 2020 | 1 ha | 39 ha | 40 ha |
| 2021 | 1 ha | 28 ha | 29 ha |
| 2022 | 8 ha | 47 ha | 55 ha |
| 2023 | 19 ha | 60 ha | 79 ha |
| 2024 | 19 ha | 51 ha | 69 ha |
| 2025 | 12 ha | 64 ha | 76 ha |
What is causing deforestation around Shaping?
- Loggingcan grow back88% · 1,150 ha
- Towns and roadscleared for good9.9% · 129 ha
- Mining and energycleared for good1.5% · 20 ha
Also: farms, pasture and plantations, unknown causes.
Causes for 2025 are estimates, based on what caused forest loss in the same places up to 2024.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 8,920 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 9,060 ha
- Overall change
- +140 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Shaping stayed about the same size, at about 9,060 hectares: new forest grew on about 974 hectares, and about 834 hectares were lost.
These 2000 and 2020 maps, from the University of Maryland, count any land with trees taller than 5 m as forest, including plantations and orchards. Forest that was cut or burned and had grown back by 2020 counts in both years, so the loss here is smaller than the yearly figures.
These figures cover everything within 10 km of the city center, a wider area than the report above, because forest is usually lost at a city's edges.
Source: Hansen/UMD/Google/USGS/NASA, Global Forest Change (GFC-2025-v1.13); causes: WRI/Google DeepMind drivers of forest loss; both CC BY 4.0, summed by Airleaf for each area. Forest gained and lost 2000–2020: Potapov et al. 2022, UMD GLAD Global Land Cover and Land Use Change, CC BY 4.0. Images: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data. How it's measured
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Frequently asked
Questions about Shaping
What is the air quality (AQI) in Shaping right now?
The latest reading for Shaping shows an AQI of 102 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), measured Nov 11, 23:00 local time by 4 ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ (the median of their readings; the nearest is 桂北邨, (江门市桂北邨), 600 m away). The main pollutant is PM2.5. Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Shaping today?
At AQI 102 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): children, older adults and people with asthma or heart disease should cut down long or hard exercise. Windows: close them to keep the outside air out. Masks: sensitive groups: an N95 outdoors. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Shaping been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Shaping's daily AQI at 83 on average, from 52 on Nov 9 to an hourly peak of 159 on Nov 6. On 2 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Shaping lost since 2001?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Shaping has lost about 1,300 hectares of forest (about 1,800 football pitches): 27% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it was lost to logging, so much of it can grow back. About 149 hectares (11%) was deforestation: forest cleared for good for farms, mines or towns. Forest loss is slowing down: about 62 hectares a year in 2021–2025, down from 88 hectares a year in 2016–2020. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Shaping stayed about the same size, at about 9,060 hectares: new forest grew on about 974 hectares, and about 834 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Shaping?
Shaping has an estimated 71,573 trees across the 12.34 km² of land measured — 23.2% tree cover, 12 percentage points short of the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Shaping need?
Shaping needs roughly 36,404 more trees to close a 12-point shortfall against its 35% tree-cover target — about 800.9 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Shaping's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality is measured by ground monitoring stations near Heshan, via OpenAQ; the 7-day trend is the Open-Meteo / CAMS model's estimate. Tree cover is measured from Sentinel-2 L2A (ESA Copernicus) via Earth Search satellite imagery at 10 m detail across a 2 km radius around Heshan; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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