Officials in Beijing, China’s massive capital city, have recently announced that they will raise the threshold standard to issue the highest pollution warnings starting in March.

In the future, the requirements for a "red alert" in Beijing and surrounding provinces, like Tianjin and Hebei, will have to in Air Quality Index readings, reported Xinhua, China’s state media agency.

Red alerts will also be issued if the daily forecast AGI is projected to climb above 200 for four consecutive days or more, or 300 for two straight days or more.

A woman wears a mask as she rides her bicycle along a street near Tiananmen Square on the third day of a 'red alert' for pollution in Beijing on December 21, 2015.

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Before the adjustment, a red alert was issued with an AQI of 200 over a three-day-span.

“There will be if we continue using the current standards, which will bring about a high social and economic cost,” Ma Jun, an environmental researcher in Beijing told the New York Times.

Beijing announced that they would be closing 2,500 companies in 2016 that all contribute in larger part to the overall pollution, yet environment officials estimate , says the Shanghaiist.

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In addition, Beijing is planning on building and push away smog and pollutants, says a second Xinhua report.

"Ventilation corridors can improve wind flow through a city so that wind can blow away heat and pollutants, relieving urban heat island effect and air pollution," said Wang Fei, the deputy head of Beijing’s urban planning committee.

The raised standards comeonly two months after Beijing was forced to issue its first ever red alert.

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A woman wears a protection mask as she walks along a street on a polluted day in Beijing, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015. Schools closed and rush-hour roads were much quieter than normal as Beijing’s first-ever red alert for smog took effect Tuesday, closing many factories and invoking restrictions to keep half the city’s vehicles off the roads. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)