Beijing to put clean-air plan into action

BEIJING - This year, Beijing will focus on air quality through measures such as improving pollution monitoring and reducing the density of major pollutants at construction sites by 2 percent on average, Beijing Mayor Guo Jinlong said Thursday.

As part of the drive to raise awareness of pollution, the city will begin publishing air quality data.

Furthermore, Beijing has set a goal to recycle 150,000 old cars that cause heavy air pollution and replace coal-fired boilers with clean energy to provide heating, Guo said while making an annual work report to the Beijing Municipal People's Congress, the city's legislature.