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The Chinese capital
Beijing is planning to build ventilation corridors throughout the city to get
rid of pollution that is chocking the city's residents.
Xinhua
news report continues:
The
plan, shared with Xinhua news, calls for erecting five 500-meter wide
ventilation corridors, which will connect to a web of auxiliary corridors
measuring 80 meters wide.
"Five
first-level and a dozen second-level ventilation tunnels will be built. There
might even be third-level ones in the future. Based on the different conditions
of the tunnels, we will conduct further studies with meteorological departments
and related experts. Each tunnel will have a model. The aim is to ease the
urban heat island effect and decrease air pollution," Wang Fei, deputy
head of Beijing's urban planning committee announced.
The
new ventilation system will encompass the city and connect parks, rivers and
lakes, in addition to highways and low building blocks.
"Ventilation
corridors can improve wind flow through a city so that wind can blow away heat
and pollutants, relieving urban heat island effect and air pollution,"
Wang told Xinhua.
One
of the main arteries will run from the northern suburban areas to their
southern counterparts. Another of the five corridors will be built along the
central axis of Beijing, from Taiping Suburban Park in the north to the
Beijing-Shanghai Highway in the southern end of the city.
Besides
primary and secondary ventilation corridors, other smaller vents will be added
to the system, Wang said, adding that obstacles along the way will be removed
to pave a way for new installations.
Beijing is in dire need of
clearing its pollution as last year it recorded only 186 days of air quality
"up to par," according to statistics from the city's Municipal
Environmental Protection Bureau (MEP).
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