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26-10-2015, 04:40 PM
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‘Where’s the fire?’: Chinese city cloaked in choking smog after coal-burning heating systems turned on for winter
PUBLISHED : Monday, 26 October, 2015, 2:51pm
UPDATED : Monday, 26 October, 2015, 2:51pm
Zhen Liu
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http://cdn1.scmp.com/sites/default/files/styles/486x302/public/2015/10/26/smogchangchun1a.jpg?itok=SuKM9Gy-
A woman puts her hand to her mouth during heavy smog in Changchun in Jilin province. Photos: Sina.com
Smog in a city in northern China was so bad on Sunday that some people thought there must have been a huge fire in the area, state media reported.
The air pollution in Changchun in Jilin province was, in fact, caused by the city turning on coal-burning central heating systems for the winter, China National Radio reported.
Photographs showed the city’s streets enveloped in a thick brown haze.
http://www.scmp.com/sites/default/files/styles/486w/public/2015/10/26/smogchanchun2.jpg?itok=7kD-A2FK
As winter comes to northern China and the temperature falls, coal used to power heating systems becomes a major polluter.
Forty-one of the 43 worst polluted days in Changchun two years ago were in the period when central heating systems were operating, the report said.
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.singsupplies.com/showthread.php?218928-Haze-is-all-year-round-for-this-country&goto=newpost).
‘Where’s the fire?’: Chinese city cloaked in choking smog after coal-burning heating systems turned on for winter
PUBLISHED : Monday, 26 October, 2015, 2:51pm
UPDATED : Monday, 26 October, 2015, 2:51pm
Zhen Liu
[email protected]
http://cdn1.scmp.com/sites/default/files/styles/486x302/public/2015/10/26/smogchangchun1a.jpg?itok=SuKM9Gy-
A woman puts her hand to her mouth during heavy smog in Changchun in Jilin province. Photos: Sina.com
Smog in a city in northern China was so bad on Sunday that some people thought there must have been a huge fire in the area, state media reported.
The air pollution in Changchun in Jilin province was, in fact, caused by the city turning on coal-burning central heating systems for the winter, China National Radio reported.
Photographs showed the city’s streets enveloped in a thick brown haze.
http://www.scmp.com/sites/default/files/styles/486w/public/2015/10/26/smogchanchun2.jpg?itok=7kD-A2FK
As winter comes to northern China and the temperature falls, coal used to power heating systems becomes a major polluter.
Forty-one of the 43 worst polluted days in Changchun two years ago were in the period when central heating systems were operating, the report said.
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.singsupplies.com/showthread.php?218928-Haze-is-all-year-round-for-this-country&goto=newpost).