A day before the CPPCC annual session began, a spokesman for the meeting again urged expedite efforts to improve air quality, saying the people cannot wait too long for the air to be cleaned.
Tap water for 60,000 people was cut off Monday due to the pollution of a water source in east China's Jiangxi Province, government sources said.
Thirty percent of official cars in Beijing should not be used when there is "extremely bad" pollution, traffic authorities confirmed Tuesday.
Beijing continued to issue the highest alert for smog on Monday, as the city's air quality hovered at levels deemed "fatal" to breathe by the World Health Organization, with PMI readings forty times above safe levels...Undermine government ambitions to make China a beautiful country for residents.
Heavy fog continued to shroud the country's north, central and eastern regions on Sunday. China's meteorological authority issued a yellow alert.
To curb the air pollution at hazardous levels, Beijing started emergency response measures on Sunday.
Choked in dense smog for three consecutive days, Beijing started emergency response measures on Sunday to curb the hazardous air pollution.