Clean-air scheme to extend reach beyond capital

The traffic-control measures aimed at ridding the air of pollution during the Olympic Games could end up affecting people in Beijing's neighboring provinces, a source familiar with the plans said.

"The clean-air plans will require the municipality's neighbors to adopt certain traffic-control measures and industrial-emissions controls," the source said yesterday on condition of anonymity.

The purpose of the plan is to reduce the amount of inhalable particles and ozone in the air.