Capital to clean water, reduce coal

Municipal government planning to install more clean-energy boilers, plant trees and build park

The Beijing municipal government will focus on "green development" by reducing coal consumption, cleaning up water and building more parks this year, the city's mayor said on Friday.

"Coal will be replaced with clean energy in 400 villages, while in urban areas coal-fired boilers generating a total 3,000 megawatt hours will be powered by clean energy as well," Mayor Wang Anshun said when delivering the government work report at the annual meeting of the Beijing People's Congress.