A student stands on a sports field shrouded in smog on a polluted day in Beijing, China March 10, 2021. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins As Beijing attempts to keep Omicron and COVID-19 out of the ...

The Chinese capital has for many years suffered from serious air pollution. Primary sources of pollutants include exhaust emission from Beijing's more than five million motor vehicles, coal ...

Bloomberg reports that highways and airports in Beijing were closed down for a week to reduce heavy pollution. Police closed off the six expressways that link Beijing to Shanghai, Tianjin and Harbin.

Two new concepts -- 'APEC Blue' and 'Beijing Smog' -- were coined in Chinese social media in November 2014 when Beijing hosted the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) summit. To improve the ...

Beijing has been on the frontlines of a "war against pollution" declared by Premier Li Keqiang in 2014, as part of a central government promise to reverse damage done by decades of growth, and ...