{"id":27263,"date":"2008-07-31T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T10:35:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-05-14T18:37:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T18:37:21","slug":"2263-china-announces-emergency-pollution-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/2263-china-announces-emergency-pollution-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"China announces emergency pollution measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The plan would be carried out if air quality was forecast to be short of acceptable standards for the upcoming 48 hours due to &quot;extremely<br \/>\nunfavourable weather conditions&quot;, the reported quoted the Ministry of Environmental Protection as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has already cleared half of the city&#8217;s 3.3 million car users from the streets by restricting vehicles with odd or even license<br \/>\nplate numbers on alternate days. But under the emergency plan, the system would be extended to the city of Tianjin and four areas of<br \/>\nneighbouring Hebei province. In Beijing, cars where the license plate&#8217;s last digit matches the last number of the date would be<br \/>\nbanned.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 105 electronic, chemical, furniture and construction material factories in Beijing would suspend or reduce production, it<br \/>\nsaid. Around 100 plants and factories in Tianjin and Hebei would also be affected.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/environmentNews\/idUSPEK17203320080731\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">full story<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing will take more cars off the streets and slash production at over 220 factories if air quality plunges significantly during the Olympics, Reuters reported a slew of new emergency measures as saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_has_post_settings":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"country":[],"class_list":["post-27263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 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