The alumina refineries in Shanxi, Shandong and Henan mostly experienced production cuts or suspensions due to environmental protection policies, which have totalled 15.02 million mt/year for the moment.
Tan Lili, the principal of Shanghai’s Baoshan No. 2 Central Elementary School, has been wrestling with a problem in the past few months: her school does not have enough physical education (PE) teachers.
She is not alone.
Since China last year embarked on a nationwide campaign to reduce academic pressures on children and increase the amount of active time they spent outdoors, elementary and junior high schools across the country have been struggling.
At one school only two PE teachers are available to coach 2,600 students, media reports said.
One key law was passed in October last year to reduce the “twin pressures” of