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Beijing Welcomes Spring With Capital Clean-up

2002/03/01

Beijing Municipal Government is now well into its city-clean-up stride with a huge, initial plan for the continuance of improvements of the local environment in readiness for the 2008 Olympics. According to China Daily, under the city's environmental working agenda for this year, the capital will accelerate its forestation process and upgrade pollution control and garbage disposal to help build a "greener and cleaner city with a blue sky".

Some 1,333 hectares of green area will be created by the end of this year, while illegal buildings covering 93 hectares wil be demolished and replaced by green land. Ongoing construction of the Fifth Ring Road will include 1,960 hectares of grassland bordering the road.

The three-year suburban greening plan, which got under way at the start of 2000, will be completed by the end of this year. Under this project, a green belt totaling more than 300 square kilometers will surround the city and provide an ecological shield.



 
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