Daily commentary about China by TIME correspondents.
Afternoon view from Time Beijing Bureau window
The Beijing Environmental Protection Administration recently trumpeted a major success on its website (link here; no English but you can see the Air Pollution Index Reading for the day on the right hand side: above 60 is considered unhealthy): achieving 241 "Blue Sky Days" in 2006. And yet days like this, the city enveloped in a reeking fog, are common. Something wrong with this picture? I don't think so......
--Simon Elegant
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[...] at 6:33 am Submit a Comment • Trackback (0) In keeping with a longstanding China Blog tradition, I'll sign off with a photo from the bureau window. Only this time there isn't a snarl of cars. [...]
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