Good for a city govt to heed people's views
ON SATURDAY, the Xi'an municipal government apologized for a "hasty and inconsiderate" draft regulation on which it began soliciting public opinions six days earlier - all gasoline cars older than 10 years, and diesel cars older than five years, will be banned from entering the downtown area of the capital of Northwest Shaanxi province from August next year in a bid to control air pollution. Beijing News comments:
It is good that the city government has heeded the public's response, and admitted there are loopholes in its policymaking.
Many cities have meted out policies to try and reduce the environmental impact of the rapidly growing number of cars on their roads. But almost all of them focus on the vehicle's true emission levels, not when it was produced, which is more convincing and rational.
