Beijing (AP) - a Beijing's air pollution is the most serious wheel keep children indoors, cough residents to the hospital, but this time things are different dark haze: government transparency in talking about it.
Although residents and environmentalists are welcome, Beijing's new open smoke also put more pressure, in order to solve the root cause of the government, including western emissions limits, and strive to expand to all the vehicles in Beijing a thick traffic lag.
"It's really terrible." Very terrible, "Beijing office staff Cindy · Lou said, she walked along a is located in downtown sidewalk haze. But she added:" now, we have better information, we know how bad things, really can protect themselves, and to determine whether we should go out. "
"Before this, you just see the air is bad, but it's really bad don't know," she said.
Even the state-run media gave significant smoke important and outstanding play. More suffocating haze response weakness is, "read a review of the communist party of China youth daily front-page headline.
Government officials - who play during the past fog - held a press conference, release micro bo to discuss the news of the pollution.
Pollution of the wave peak, the level of the chart, in the thick gray haze shrouded Beijing skyscrapers. Is expected to remain in place until Tuesday, this is the most serious smoke at the beginning of last year, because the government has begun to produce digital - one of the most serious pollutants PM2.5 particles - public outcry.
The quality of the environment, more and more Chinese middle class has been an increasingly louder call, in part, from the United States embassy in China Twitter feed per hour PM2.5 reading from the roof of the building and the requirements of the citizens, in order to get more air quality information prompt.
Now, the Chinese government issued every hour more than 70 urban air quality online update.
"Beijing famous environmental activists a fair said," I think it is a very big change, added that the government know it no longer has the monopoly position environmental information. "In view of the public transmit the information ability, especially in social media, the government itself also must make the adjustment.
Air pollution is a major problem in China, due to the national economy rapid industrialization, the ownership of the vehicle explosive growth, the dependence on coal power generation, and ignore environmental laws, often and development priority than health. Usually the pollution becomes worse, because in winter, the increase of coal combustion.
"Beijing environmental monitoring center director ZhangDaWei tell" pollution has affected the area for a long time, density, in recent years in Beijing, this is rare, the press conference on Monday.
According to the government regulation, by more than 700 micrograms per cubic meter of PM2.5 particles level on Saturday, Monday fell by 350 micrograms of or so - level is still far higher than the world health organization's safety level 25.
In the United States embassy independent monitoring, horizontal peak in 886 micrograms on Saturday - are marked as "beyond the index and air quality.
Municipal authorities ordered many factories reduced emissions, water spray in the building site to try to quell the deterioration poisonous smoke dust and dirt.
Several areas of the school was ordered to cancel outdoor mark funding and sports class, and in an unusual announcement, Beijing authorities recommend that all residents "take measures to protect their health.
Beijing millennium monument hospital for more than 20% of the patients than normal breathing department of health, most of them cough, bronchitis, asthma and other respiratory diseases for treatment, yellow earth stupid, "said Dr.
PM2.5 is a tiny particles less than 2.5 microns in size, or about one over thirty of the average width of the hair. They can go deep into to the lungs, they were thought to be more accurate than other methods to reflect the measurement of air quality.
"Because these dust particles is fine, they can be directly absorbed, lung ballonet," huang said. "The airway ability prevent tiny particles of dust is relatively weak, bacteria and virus carry dust can be directly into the airway.
He added, long-term contact may lead to cancer.
Surging demand mask, half dozen pharmacy in Beijing a telephone report, they had been sold out. A woman surname peng work in gold elephant big pharmacy said, the buyer is mainly the old and students, the shop sold sixty mask, every day in the past few days.
Commercial truck was out a lot of smoke smoky Chinese cities, but authorities to suspend execution stricter emissions standards, give the burden of small businesses, pay cleaner engine.
"This is not a technical problem, more important is to consumer bear ability. Improve the emission standard, greatly increased the cost," John said, once LMC automobile co., LTD., a research firm, director of Asia Pacific region. "Most of the buyers are small business owners, they are very sensitive to the price."
Upgrade to cleaner engine will cost about 20000 yuan ($3200), increase about 8% of the vehicles a typical price, according to have.
The haze, even inspired song stupid thing, widely circulated online. "Foggy every street in Beijing, pollution index worse than diagram can read. I'm surrounded by building a fairy tale world, I see people wearing a mask in the city," the words. "Who is driving in fog who cry fog? Who is struggling in the fog, who is suffocating fog?"



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