Capital continues to move industries from downtown

Beijing will prohibit 79 percent of businesses categorized as industries in the six downtown districts and relocate four noncapital functions to suburban Tongzhou district, the municipality's Development and Reform Commission said.

Lu Yan, director of the commission, said at a news conference on Thursday that the four affected noncapital functions are manufacturing, wholesale markets, government offices and some educational and medical institutions.

By 2017, the city expects to have removed 1,200 polluting enterprises. By last year, 680 enterprises had been moved out. Another 185 moved out in the first half of this year.