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Measures unveiled to clear air in Beijing

Source: Xinhua | August 18, 2015, Tuesday | Print Edition

CHINA yesterday unveiled temporary measures to guarantee clean air for a September 3 military parade in Beijing commemorating the end of World War II.

Environment Minister Chen Jining told a meeting that clean air was integral to the success of the parade and as a showcase for the capital.

China has scheduled a series of events to mark the 70th anniversary of victory in the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, culminating in the military parade, which will feature domestic and foreign troops and China’s latest weaponry.

September 3 this year is a national holiday.

Beijing and Hebei, Tianjin, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Shandong and Henan will implement temporary controls on industry, power plants and construction between August 28 and September 4, said Zhang Gong, vice mayor of Beijing.

Some coal-fired power plants will be shut down for maintenance, more than 10,000 factories will close or reduce production, and construction at nearly 9,000 sites will be halted, Zhang said.

Private cars will be banned from the capital’s roads on alternate days from August 20 to September 3, according to their plate numbers. Some 80 percent of government cars will also be idled.

Zhang, who also heads a team tackling air pollution in Beijing and surrounding regions, said the efforts will help reduce emissions of major air pollutants by 40 percent in Beijing and 30 percent in other regions.

The capital was one of the 10 Chinese cities with the worst air quality in July, according to a ranking released by the Ministry of Environmental Protection yesterday.

Nearly 65 percent of July days were polluted, with one day of heavy pollution.

Six cities in Beijing’s neighboring Hebei Province — Xingtai, Tangshan, Baoding, Handan, Hengshui and Langfang — were among the 10 most polluted, together with Jinan in east China’s Shandong Province, Zhengzhou in central China’s Henan Province, and Chengdu in the southwest.

Air quality in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region in July was worse than the month before, although it had improved year on year, the report said.

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