Beijing reports cleaner air
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Beijing experienced its best month of air quality since 2000 with 23 blue-sky days in April, 2009.
Experts have credited both measures to protect the environment as well as the sluggish economic slowdown for the improvement.
“Thanks to consistent environmental protection measures such as traffic control, green construction and a ban on heavy-polluting vehicles, we have achieved great improvement in the capital’s air quality,” Du Shaozhong, deputy director of the Beijing municipal environmental protection bureau, told China Daily last week.
Air quality is measured by the air pollution index (API), which monitors the level of five airborne pollutants. An official “blue-sky day” is when the city’s API falls below 100, meaning there are no health implications.
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