Beijing: Closed! Too Polluted

Beijing: Closed! Too Polluted


Beijing Shuts Down As Pollution Over Past 12 Hours Literally "Off The Chart"

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For the past 12 hours, the so-called PM2.5 level (or China's new pollution threshold) has been above the "serious" level. Bear in mind this is the newly adjusted-upwards threshold that already far exceeds the WHO's health-threatening levels.


BEIJING WARNS RESIDENTS TO AVOID OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES ON SMOG

BEIJING MONITORING CENTER REPORTS `SERIOUS' AIR POLLUTION TODAY


Levels are officially "beyond index" today (with a peak at 613 so far compred to 500 "hazardous") and the streets are empty!


Via Bloomberg:

City’s air quality index reading near Tiananmen Square, putting it in category defined as “serious” pollution.


City warns residents to avoid outdoor activities


Reading of PM2.5 pollution near Tiananmen Square was 583 micrograms per cubic meter as of 6 a.m., with average reading in past 24 hours at 338, according to city’s air-monitoring website


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>More: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-15/beijing-shuts-down-pollution-over-past-12-hours-literally-chart

Is it evident now why some wealthy Beijing residents find it essential to have a bolthole in a less polluted place like HK?


It is also a very useful base for managing their "offshore" wealth


No doubt such thinking has been behind the purchases by many Chinese mainlanders.


The completion of the Express Train link, will probaby just increase the appetite from these sorts of buyers

The scary thing is that HK is viewed as being a place to escape from pollution.

Heheh .... the cleanest dirty shirt.... I was coming in from the airport by cab a couple of weeks ago and the HK 'air' had to be the worst I have seen in years - I could barely see the ships in the harbour....


I was thinking of getting a battery pack and strapping an Alen machine onto my back with a breather hose when I leave the office....