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To: RealMuLan who wrote (2272)	10/12/2007 6:57:29 PM
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Chinese polluters face Olympic shutdown ft.com By Mure Dickie in Beijing Published: October 11 2007 16:23 \| Last updated: October 11 2007 16:23 China is considering limiting the operations of steelmakers, petrochemical plants and other factories near Beijing for nearly two months next year in order to reduce air pollution during the Olympic Games, according to local media. The reports highlight continuing speculation about what action the government will take to try to ensure air quality does not hit dangerous levels when its often smoggy capital hosts the Games next August. It has been widely assumed that Beijing will be forced to order nearby factories to reduce or suspend operations, but Liu Qi, the head of the Olympic organising committee, last month told the Financial Times that such action was not needed. Mr Liu, who is the Beijing Communist party chief, said a trial of more limited temporary measures, including the banning of 1.3m cars from the streets and suspension of earth-moving work, had had “pretty ideal” results. “We have not made any demand for suspensions of [industrial] operations.” But in a report on Thursday, the China Daily quoted a locally based environmental expert as saying the trials did not do enough to improve Beijing’s air quality. “We need stronger measures now, rather than regret afterward,” the government-run English-language newspaper quoted Yang Fuqiang as saying. It cited a recent report in the respected Caijing news magazine saying that environmental authorities had approved in principle a package of actions intended to “guarantee” air quality during the Olympics.