17.03.2013 Global Times / Peking
Experts said Sunday that they do not feel optimistic about the new clean air plan launched by Beijing environmental authorities.
Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau (EPB) will enforce eight measures in 2013, including closing more than 450 high-polluting companies and scrapping 180,000 old motor vehicles to decrease the intensity of major pollutants by 2 percent annually, according to a press release on Thursday.
The new plan is based on two Beijing air administration plans issued in 2011 and 2012, which contained similar measures.
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