From Xinhua, via China Daily:
Beijing set an ambitious 245-day “blue sky” target for this year after beating the annual good-air-quality day target in 2006.
The city had fulfilled the annual target of 238 days for 2006 by December 24, and saw three more days of blue sky before the New Year’s Day.
The target last year was once widely believed to be a “mission impossible” as the city was hit by severe sandstorms last spring. [Full Text]
Video below, shot on Dec. 11, 2006 by a member of the CDT team on a 10-day stay in Beijing that delivered only two blue-sky (or rather blue-ish sky) days, demonstrates just how “ambitious” the new target is.
