Children kept at home,building sites and factories closed and cars kept off roads as pollution engulfs Chinese capital“Create a paradise,” urges the motto of Beijing’s Baijiazhuang primary school – a message stamped on to its front gate in incandescent red calligraphy.
On Tuesday morning, and as China’s smog-choked capital declared its first ever air pollution red alert,the campus, normally buzzing with over-energetic 10-year-olds, and was nearly silent.
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Source: theguardian.com