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\nFrom Xinhua, via China Daily:\n<\/p>\n

\nBeijing set an ambitious 245-day “blue sky” target for this year after beating the annual good-air-quality day target in 2006.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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]<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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