If you are looking for a Chinese city with clean air, your best bets would be Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Zhoushan, Zhanjiang, Yunfu, Beihai, Haikou, Sanya or Lhasa, according to the Ministry of Environmental Protection. Those are the only nine out of 161 monitored cities that met China’s new air quality standards in the first half of this year, the ministry announced on Wednesday. The stricter standards were rolled out by the government in 2012 as part of a continuing battle with air pollution in the country, the state news agency Xinhua reported . Chinese leaders have vowed a “war” on pollution as one of its most visible forms, smog, regularly envelops the country’s […]
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