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Two dozen polluting factories will be required to reduce emissions by 30%. The targeted companies include the Yanshan Petrochemical Co., the Number 27 Locomotive Factory, four power plants and several building material and glass production factories. Shougang Steel, which is scheduled to move to neighboring Hebei province by 2010, will...
Environmental experts welcomed the new rules. "It is useful and helpful, but alone it is not sufficient," says Zhang Hongjun, an environmental lawyer and former official with China's State Environmental Protection Administration. He says that Beijing will have to ensure that the new restrictions are coupled with "meaningful enforcement...
Du Shaozhong, deputy head of the Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau, told reporters Monday that the region of Inner Mongolia, the neighboring city of Tianjin and nearby provinces of Hebei, Shanxi, and Shandong would strengthen air pollution controls as well, but he did not give specifics. Those measures will be key...
Since being awarded the 2008 Summer Games seven years ago, Beijing has engaged in an aggressive effort to clean up its toxic haze, which is among the worst in the world. The city has spent nearly $17 billion on anti-pollution measures such as moving factories, adding subway lines, upgrading...
Thus far the results have been mixed. The difficulty is that Beijing has been trying to control pollution as its economy grows at more than 10% a year, workers flood in from other provinces and more than 1,000 cars are added to the road each day. Environmental officials say...