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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: Arghh...Why is the air SO bad in Beijing this week?
It looks like doomsday outside and my natural instinct to breathe is starting to be affected. The PM2.5 count has been looming around the 500 mark for days now and it's just getting unbearable. Why oh why!!!!!
12 years 23 weeks ago in Health & Safety - Beijing
It's happening down here too. Spring Festival marks the largest annual human migration, currently. And in a town full of migrants like Beijing, that must be an insane number of people.
Mr_spoon:
Actually, Beijing is rather empty during the spring festival, since a big part of Beijing's residents are 外地人...
kchur:
This post was made before spring festival started, when all those people were leaving.
i know what you mean. My voice is croaky and im spitting phlegm each morning.
Not good.....
I agreed with Kchur and Monterey that the more people that come in and the more people that you will be around can cause you to have or catch something bad such as croaky voice or inflammation in your throat. It doesn't look unusual to me not sure exactly what your seeing but it looks like another day in the neighborhood to me. It has been getting a bit colder imho but not much difference. And the other day I found a big spot where they let the dogs do their thing which doesn't help out the matter much any. Just imagine your in heaven! It could be hard to do but at least you will be thinking about something nice instead of the doomsday you described.
'Cause it's Beijing. 'Cause it's China. The air is usually bad where ever you go, unless yak is the main mode of transportation, and then you might be far enough removed from industry to actually breathe!
The population of beijing is almost 20 million, if they have out of town guests for the holidays and they all eat about the same time, these are Chinese people, what would you expect for air quality? I'm surprised the city doesn't echo from rapid fire.
First of all, many of the factories in Beijing were moved outside of the city for the Olympics but they are still in the greater Beijing area. Secondly, a city of 20 million or not, it isn't simply green enough to absorb all of the emissions from that number of cars and buses, etc., etc. Thirdly, it is inland so there are no tradewinds to blow the pollution out to see. Fourthly and most importantly, there are no real, serious anti-stringent pollution measures in place. It's like Mexico City, I think, or Santiago-de-Chile, but maybe even worse.
The reason the pollution was so bad right before the Spring Festival is because factories upped their production levels, many running 24 hours a day,to make up for the factory closures during the break.