Category Archives: China

China faces $176bn bill to clean up air pollution

Posted on December 23, 2013 by Respro® UK Ltd

Cleaning up China’s air pollution will cost 1.75 trillion yuan (£176b) between 2013 and 2017, a high-ranking environmental official has estimated. Wang Jinnan, deputy head of the Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning, said that the investment –part of an anti-pollution … Continue reading →

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China seeks to curb worst air pollution in 50 years

Posted on December 19, 2013 by Respro® UK Ltd

China’s air pollution in 2013 is at its worst for some 52 years, with 13 provinces hitting record-high levels of air pollution, according to the ministry of environmental protection. In recent days, traffic has been delayed in Shanghai, Jiangsu, Henan, Shandong; … Continue reading →

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China, Japan, South Korea to jointly combat air pollution

Posted on December 17, 2013 by Respro® UK Ltd

China, Japan and South Korea on Sunday agreed to jointly combat air pollution, a common challenge to East Asia, to boost sustainable development for greater ecological improvement. At the end of a two-day summit in Xianghe, a county about one … Continue reading →

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China’s Air Pollution Is So Awful You Can See It From Space

Posted on December 12, 2013 by Respro® UK Ltd

Just in case you’d gotten used to those now-ubiquitous photos of smog-choked Chinese cities, NASA has managed to up the ante with the image up above: yes, that’s China’s air pollution, as seen from orbit. The image was snapped by the … Continue reading →

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Breathing dirty air is Hong Kong’s lot, sadly

Posted on December 11, 2013 by Respro® UK Ltd

There’s something in the air, but it’s not the smell of the approaching holiday season. Rather, it’s the unwelcome return of smog which for the past week has hung over Hong Kong like a viscous cloak of invisibility. Recently, the … Continue reading →

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Eight Chinese cities fined for air pollution

Posted on December 10, 2013 by Respro® UK Ltd

Local governments in eight cities in northeast China’s Liaoning Province have been fined a total of 54.2 million yuan (8.9 million U.S. dollars) for air pollution, the provincial department of environment protection said Tuesday. The fines, the first the provincial … Continue reading →

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Schoolchildren ordered indoors as air pollution cloaks Shanghai

Posted on December 6, 2013 by Respro® UK Ltd

Shanghai authorities ordered schoolchildren indoors and halted all construction on Friday as China’s financial hub suffered one its worst bouts of air pollution, bringing visibility down to a few dozen meters and obscuring the city’s spectacular skyline. The financial district … Continue reading →

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Shanghai Hits Record Pollution Level On Marathon Day, Causing Runners’ Lungs To Hurt

Posted on December 5, 2013 by Respro® UK Ltd

When air quality levels in the eastern Chinese city of Shanghai reach the government’s definition of “heavily polluted,” government officials recommend that children and the elderly refrain from all physical activity outdoors. Everyone else, they say, should avoid prolonged or … Continue reading →

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