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Beijing budgets billions of yuan in effort to clean up air

By Zheng Jinran | China Daily | Updated: 2017-03-18 06:56

Measures to cut coal consumption, number of vehicles prove effective

Beijing will expand funding to reduce air pollution in 2017, including phasing out hundreds of thousands of automobiles and replacing coal furnaces in hundreds of villages, the municipal government said.

So far in March, more than 10 days of clear, blue skies have been recorded. There were 198 such days last year and 186 in 2015, according to the Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau.

Beijing budgets billions of yuan in effort to clean up air

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