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Friday, 17 January 2014

North China Smog Prompts Second-Day Warnings to Stay Indoors

Smog hit hazardous levels in China’s steel-producing Hebei region for the second day as state-controlled media announced plans to fine local governments that don’t meet pollution-control targets.


A concentration of PM2.5, the pollutants that pose the greatest risk to human health, reached 443 micrograms per cubic meter in Shijiazhuang and 758 in Xingtai as of 12 p.m., data from the China National Environment Monitoring Center showed. That’s more than 17 times levels of 24-hour exposure recommended by the World Health Organization.


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