{"id":11998,"date":"2014-08-14T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T15:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11998"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:13:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:13:35","slug":"beijing-residents-will-have-to-wait-at-least-another-16-years-to-breathe-healthy-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/beijing-residents-will-have-to-wait-at-least-another-16-years-to-breathe-healthy-air","title":{"rendered":"Beijing residents will have to wait at least another 16 years to breathe healthy air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"author\">By <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/author\/lilkuo\/\">Lily Kuo<\/a><\/span> \u2014 Quartz<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"annotatable\" data-article-id=\"229333\" data-thread-id=\"82553\" data-annotation-count=\"0\"><span class=\"anno-span\">Over the past six years, Beijing has seen at least 1,812 days of \u201cunhealthy\u201d air quality, and that trend isn\u2019t going to get better any time soon. Pan Tao, head of the Beijing Municipal Research Institute of Environmental Protection, estimates that air pollution in the capital won\u2019t be reach safe levels <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/china\/2014-07\/02\/content_17635872.htm\">until at least 2030<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"annotatable\" data-article-id=\"229333\" data-thread-id=\"82554\" data-annotation-count=\"0\"><span class=\"anno-span\">China\u2019s president Xi Jinping has called air pollution the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-02-26\/xi-calls-pollution-beijing-s-biggest-challenge-as-smog-eases.html\">most prominent challenge<\/a>\u201d Beijing faces. Foreign firms are paying their workers \u201chardship\u201d salaries to be posted in the city. In February a report from the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences said that pollution in the capital is \u201cnear a level that is no longer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/e32449f8-9469-11e3-a0e1-00144feab7de.html#axzz36HNIJDvY\">livable for human beings<\/a>.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"annotatable\" data-article-id=\"229333\" data-thread-id=\"82554\" data-annotation-count=\"0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/229333\/beijing-residents-will-have-to-wait-at-least-another-16-years-to-breathe-healthy-air\/#229333\/beijing-residents-will-have-to-wait-at-least-another-16-years-to-breathe-healthy-air\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lily Kuo \u2014 Quartz Over the past six years, Beijing has seen at least 1,812 days of \u201cunhealthy\u201d air quality, and that trend isn\u2019t going to get better any time soon. Pan Tao, head of the Beijing Municipal Research Institute of Environmental Protection, estimates that air pollution in the capital won\u2019t be reach safe [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1507],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46927,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11998\/revisions\/46927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}