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China's Smoggiest City Closes Schools Amid Public Anger

posted by mrpg on Friday December 23 2016, @12:34AM   Printer-friendly
from the this-won't-help-my-cold dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

China's smoggiest city closed schools Wednesday as much of the country suffered its sixth day under an oppressive haze, sparking public anger about the slow response to the threat to children's health.

Since Friday a choking miasma has covered a large swathe of northeastern China, leaving more than 460 million gasping for breath.

Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei province, was one of more than 20 cities which went on red alert Friday evening, triggering an emergency plan to reduce pollution by shutting polluting factories and taking cars off the road, among other measures.

Nowhere has been hit as hard as Shijiazhuang, which has seen a huge rise in pollution.

But the city's education department waited until Tuesday evening to announce it was closing elementary schools and kindergartens, following similar moves in nearby Beijing and Tianjin.

The announcement said middle and high schools could close on a voluntary basis.

The statement on the education department's official social media account provoked anger.

Hmm, classmates in Beijing assured us air pollution in China came from Siberia.

Also at Channel NewsAsia: Chinese cities choked by dangerous smog for fifth day; factories, schools closed

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @05:05AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @05:05AM (#444936)

    have ever lived under it.

    Communism is supposed to be about the WORKERS OWNING THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION BY WAY OF THE STATE.

    Neither Russia nor China has been communist basically since their inception, they only had a thin veneer and good PR machine claiming so, while actually helping the rich get richer and keeping the middle class poorer, much like under Capitalism in the rest of the world.

    Both systems in the end lead to oligarchism/authoritarianism and political corruption. The only difference is the steps leading there.

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @05:11AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @05:11AM (#444939)

    Except the Chinese middle class is expnding and getting more and more well off. 30 years of solid growth and a long term plan will do that to a country. How is America's next quarter looking?