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Beijing’s municipal government issued a yellow-haze warning late Wednesday while state media urged citizens to stay indoors or to take precautions such as donning face masks before venturing outside.
Across northern China in provinces including Hebei, Hubei, Jiangsu and Inner Mongolia, air monitoring stations recorded readings over 500, and visibility across the region was severely curtailed. In some places visibility was below 3,200 feet, leading to highway closures, suspension of high-speed train services and the cancellation of flights from Beijing International Airport.
By mid-afternoon, pollution levels had fallen and strong winds had pushed much of the remaining cloud cover from the capital.
Geographically close to the Gobi Desert, Beijing and other northern cities are particularly susceptible to sandstorms such as Thursday’s. Sandstorms are prevalent in late winter and spring as melting frost frees sand and strong winds kick it up and push it eastward.
The start of 2013 has brought chronic bad air to much of China. In January, air pollution readings were so bad that they were compared to living in an airport smoking lounge. That comparison was underscored by record high levels of PM2.5 on Jan. 12, when readings topped out at 755 on the air quality index.
Frustration over China’s continued pollution problems popped up across Chinese social media. But irritation over the long-brewing issue was perhaps best summed up by a viral photo originally posted on popular Web portal QQ.com of an unhappy looking Yao Ming, grimacing at the Beijing sky.
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People in Beijing endure a noxious and potentially dangerous mix of sand and fine particulate pollution on Thursday, after a sandstorm blew in from the Gobi Desert.
Yao, the former NBA All-Star and current member of a Communist Party advisory board known as the China People’s Political Consultative Conference, is currently in Beijing in the lead-up to next month’s National People’s Congress.
The congress will mark the final step in China’s once-in-a-decade leadership change as party heads Xi Jinping and Le Keqiang formally take over as China’s president and prime minister, respectively.
Since taking over China’s ruling Communist Party late last year, the new leaders have spoken repeatedly about improving the mainland’s environment.
Many China watchers believe that China’s environmental degradation — underscored by severe air pollution, contaminated soil and dirty waterways — will be a focal point during the congress.