Noise monitoring is an important foundation for quality evaluation of acoustic environment, prevention and control of noise pollution, and decision making about noise management. With an introduction to the development trend of noise automatic monitoring in the world and systematic review of the development process of noise automatic monitoring in China which has been divided into development stages, the effectiveness and shortcomings of noise automatic monitoring in China are evaluated in this paper. The next three to five years will witness a big leap in noise monitoring work. First, the automatic monitoring network of acoustic environment quality, the quality management system of monitoring data, and the standardization and informatization of noise monitoring should be optimized further; second, the digital intelligence transformation of noise monitoring should be accelerated by promoting the application of advanced technical technologies such as sound pattern recognition and noise map which will significantly improve the identification accuracy of noise pollution types and spatial and temporal distribution so as to solve the prominent noise problems around the people and make greater contributions to the construction of beautiful China.

noise automatic monitoring  /  Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Noise Pollution  /  digital intelligent monitoring