China shuts down factories to clean air for olympics

[dajoga]

BEIJING (Reuters) - Tianjin, a port city just east of Beijing, has ordered 40 factories to shut for the Olympics, the latest dramatic step taken by China to ensure that pollution does not spoil the Games in August.

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The Tianjin order follows news on Friday that Tangshan, an industrial city about 150 km (90 miles) east of Beijing, will shut nearly 300 factories this month to improve air quality for the Games.

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[DesertFox]

Must be some serious shiite.

[DoctorDoom]

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[DeclinetoState]

Why is it that the "socialist" (and thus presumably, and often ostensibly, "green") countries, whether China, the former Soviet Union, or the Warsaw Pact countries of Eastern Europe, are or were the biggest polluters, while the ee-vill capitalist countries have, at least for the past 50 years, been comparatively much cleaner?