Working together to curb pollution

Hebei province has received huge amounts of financial support from Beijing and Tianjin municipalities to curb its levels of air pollution during the past two years.

According to the Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau, two cities in Hebei received a total of 962 million yuan ($139 million) from the capital in 2015 and 2016.

The money was used to eliminate coal-fired boilers and promote the use of clean energy in Langfang and Baoding, which border Beijing.