Chicken farmers and auto designers follow different career paths, but soon both may be changing how they do their jobs as part of a campaign to clean up China's polluted air.Emissions from poultry waste and auto engines alike can contain potentially harmful levels of ammonia, a colorless gas with a pungent smell that's getting new attention as part of the country's battle
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A worker moves coal briquettes onto a pedicab at a coal distribution business in Huaibei, Anhui province on January 30, 2013. Environmental concerns particularly over the use of coal have been pushed to the top of the national agenda after much of the country was covered with a blanket of pollution earlier this year.
Beijing is Trapped in its Polluted Neighborhood
August 9, 2013
By Zhang Chun, Assistant Editor in chinadialogue’s Beijing office. This article was first published by chinadialogue.
In 2011, approximately 9,900 premature deaths in China are estimated to have been due to pollution. The Ministry of Environmental Protection recently released a pollution ranking of seventy-four cities over the first three months of the year. Of the ten most polluted, seven are in Hebei, with the provincial capital Shijiazhuang top of the list.