国产热热热精品,亚洲视频久久】日韩,三级婷婷在线久久,99人妻精品视频,精品九热人人肉肉在线,AV东京热一区二区,91po在线视频观看,久久激情宗合,青青草黄色手机视频

OLYMPICS / Olympic Nation

Pre-Games Beijing haunted by growing weather concerns


Updated: 2008-07-28 23:57

 

"We did see more sunny days and bluer skies since the beginning of July. It's really weird that the trend seemed to take a reverse over the past week despite the new traffic ban," said He Xin, 35, an office lady who is a native of Beijing.

Related readings:
 Group recognizes Beijing's efforts to clean up air
 Beijing confident of clean air during Olympics
 Beijing promises air quality during Games
 UNEP official: Beijing makes progress in air pollution control

It was all the treacherous weather to blame, explained the city's environment watchdog, adding that some critical progress in pollution reduction might be invisible to the public, but well supported by monitoring data.

Ever since the traffic ban, the density of carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide and particulate matters in the city air has kept falling, scoring a 20-percent year-on-year decrease, said Du Shaozhong, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau.

"Despite the haze factor, the capital's daily pollution reading remained at Level II, or fairly good on Monday," said Du, citing the national air quality monitoring report.

"It's just like in a public sauna room -- maybe you can't see clearly afar, but it's not because of pollution," he quipped.

When it rains and the air cools down, the city would see clearer skies, the official predicted.

The meteorological bureau supported the prediction by saying that in the following week starting from Monday, Beijing will see frequent rainfalls again, perhaps in five out of the seven days.

It is certainly good news to environment officials and those who hate the haze and heat, but for Zhang Yimou, chief director of the Games' opening ceremony, it means disaster.

Zhang, who is heading a team of elite artists designing and preparing the ceremony in top secrecy, has repeatedly said that rain was what he feared most as it could easily ruin the long-practiced performance set to be staged in the roofless national stadium, the Bird's Nest.

The ceremony is scheduled for 8:08 p.m. on August 8, and historical data indicate a 41 percent precipitation chance on that date. It was reported that the Beijing organizers had proposed the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to kick off the Games, ideally on August 15, but the final decision from the IOC left Beijing no choice but to prevent any possible rainfall, at least around the sky of the Bird's Nest.

   Previous 1 2 3 Next  
Comments of the article(total ) Print This Article E-mail
缙云县| 襄城县| 巫山县| 武山县| 海兴县| 乐都县| 靖西县| 巩义市| 深州市| 南郑县| 邹平县| 固安县| 柳州市| 寻乌县| 九龙城区| 师宗县| 福州市| 台南市| 登封市| 津南区| 原阳县| 卢龙县| 阳信县| 托里县| 浙江省| 九寨沟县| 郎溪县| 合江县| 佛教| 天门市| 宽城| 宁津县| 独山县| 成安县| 兴化市| 和平县| 泾阳县| 卢龙县| 鸡西市| 万安县| 黄龙县|