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metals in the urban topsoil of Quanzhou City. The results showed that Sb, Bi, Sn, Pb, Cu and Zn mainly originated from traffic and industrial contamination?!居⑽恼縒ith the development of the urbanization, the human activity imports a large amount of pollutants into the urban environment, provoking some serious environmental problems. Among those, the pollution of heavy metal in urban soils is the most serious. The heavy metals in urban soil which are transported through ground dust and food chain may destroy the urban entironment seriously, and even may do harm to the human’s the paper, the topsoil of Quanzhou City was regarded as the research object. The survey region was divided into five zones as traffic zone, mercial zone, residential zone, urban green land and industrial urban topsoil samples were collected, and 18 kinds of heavy metal elements were analyzed to assess the pollution degree of heavy metals and to discuss their probable sources. The results of the study shows:(1) The concentration characteristics of heavy metals in the urban topsoil of Quanzhou City were