January 18, 2006

You are on the invidual archive page of Take A Deep Breath. Click Simon World weblog for the main page.
Take A Deep Breath

I just got back from Beijing. Wonderful city, a bit nippy, but a pleasant place to get lost by Hou Hai Lake or even in Hai Dian. Food was excellent! Much higher quality than when I was a liexuesheng at Shi Fan Da Xue.

I did, however, note with concern the fact that my flight to Beijing had to be diverted to Taiyuan in Shansi province because of 'fog'. The visibility at the airport was apparently limited to 100 metres. It was not much improved when I landed three hours later.

So it was with some interest that I saw the latest pollution readings for cities in China by the China Environment Monitoring Center via TMC.net. The trouble with all such readings, though, is the basis for its measurements (because the whole world has totally different measures from one another). Basically, though, China has a scale from I to V, with I being an excellent, or 'G' rating, and V being terrible, or an 'XXX' rating. Beijing was rated III.

So I had a look at Shenzhen and Shanghai - they both had I, for excellent.

Hmmm....doesn't sound right to me! If Shenzhen and Shanghai are excellent...better start planting more trees!

posted by HK Dave on 01.18.06 at 06:20 PM in the China food/environment/health category.




Trackbacks:

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://blog.mu.nu/cgi/trackback.cgi/146218


Send a manual trackback ping to this post.


Comments:




Post a Comment:

Name:


Email Address:


URL:


Comments:


Remember your info?










Disclaimer