{"id":25721,"date":"2007-01-26T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-26T13:06:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-05-14T18:34:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T18:34:29","slug":"721-beijing-mayor-worries-about-olympic-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/721-beijing-mayor-worries-about-olympic-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"Beijing mayor worries about Olympic pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking in his annual work report, Wang Qishan said Olympic projects were on schedule and the economy had grown 12%.   <\/p>\n<p>But the city still had many problems to deal with, said Wang, including poor work safety standards, a potential property bubble and growing rich-poor divide.  <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Population growth is excessively rapid, and tasks of cleaning up pollution and relieving traffic jams are especially hard,&quot; said Wang.  <\/p>\n<p>Wang also made a brief mention of corruption in his 90-minute speech. &quot;A number of government departments and their employees lack a proper understanding of their service responsibilities and a tiny number of officials use their public position for private gain and become corrupt and degenerate,&quot; Wang said.  <\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alertnet.org\/thenews\/newsdesk\/PEK137105.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">full story<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" src=\"\/UserFiles\/Image\/olympic_countdown.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/genez\/115655754\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gene Zhang<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing&#8217;s mayor expressed concerns on Friday about how the city will deal with problems including traffic, pollution and corruption before the Olympic 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