“More money needed” to clean up Beijing environment

Beijing still must spend more to keep its environment clean, the China Daily reported a new "green GDP" report, published on Tuesday, as saying.
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China’s capital was the first of 10 municipalities and provinces to release the results of the "2004 Environmentally Adjusted GDP Accounting" pilot project.
The report shows that in 2004, Beijing needed 3 billion yuan (US$375 million) more than the earmarked 5 billion yuan (US$625 million) to treat its total pollution emissions.
The economic damage caused by pollution in Beijing in 2004 was about 11.7 billion yuan (US$1.4 billion), or almost 2% of its 606 billion yuan (US$76 billion) GDP.
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