China — Day 13: Beijing (北京); Tianenmen Square and the Forbidden City
@ Adrian Tritschler · Saturday, Sep 2, 2006 · 1 minute read · Update at Sep 2, 2006 ·
The weather in Beijing (北京) is officially “cloudy” — there is no smog.
In preparation for the 2008 Olympic games, large numbers of new parks and trees are being planted all over the city, and a huge steelworks has been closed and moved to another city to clean up the air — Beijing’s air anyway, the unvisited industrial recipient city gets all the pollution now. Car numbers are supposedly to be capped at three million to limit congestion and pollution, but nobody is quite sure whether this will happen, or whether money and privilege will just make for a black market in unofficial cars.
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Beijing (北京)
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