Beijing takes aim at pollution in quest to become ‘world city’
SCMP
Cary Huang in Beijing
In his speech Guo said the capital faced an extremely serious pollution problem despite the improvement two years ago when the country invested massively in the city’s environment to stage a green Olympics.
He unveiled a target for blue-sky days this year of 73 per cent, or 266, on which air quality will be judged excellent or fairly good. That compares with the 285 such days achieved last year, which exceeded the target of 260…
