Beijing Air Pollution Among World’s Worst
China’s capital has become one of the world’s most polluted capitals, with air 35 times dirtier than London’s and 16 times more contaminated than crowded Tokyo’s, the Chinese media said Tuesday.
Soot from the burning of coal and sulfur dioxide emissions from heavy industry send air pollution above official limits in the capital and 59 other cities, said the China Youth News, quoting the results of China’s first survey of industrial pollution.
The country has 168,000 “polluting factories” despite an environmental protection law in force for nine years, the paper quoted Qu Geping, head of the State Environmental Protection Agency, as telling a news conference.
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