Zhang Jun/ Shanghai Daily news

One of the city's worst pollution blights is being tackled head-on - and much cleaner air is on the horizon, Shanghai Daily reported. 

More than a third of local buses will be upgraded this year to lessen the emission of overwhelming black fumes, city official told Shanghai Daily yesterday.

Several government departments, including the city's transport and environmental authorities, will work together to supervise the upgrade. Street monitors will also be employed. "We will work shoulder to shoulder," Su Guodong, director of the pollution control department of the Shanghai Environmental Protection Bureau, said yesterday.