Studio interview: Air pollution in Beijing-Jianjin-Hebei area

According to the Ministry of Finance, China has put aside five billion Yuan or 817 million US dollars to tackle air pollution in six regions including Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

Joining us now in the studio is Wang Tao, a resident scholar of the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for global policy. He is responsible for the energy and climate Program at the centre.

Q1: What has made the air pollution problem in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area more severe than in other parts of the country?

Q2: Considering what you have said just now, are there any feasible solutions to tackle the air pollution in the region?

Video Link: http://english.cntv.cn/program/china24/20131016/101074.shtml

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