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China's Clean-Up Act

Feb 19 2008
Pollution in China
Bird's Nest
wind farm turbine
wind farm turbine
forest planting in Beijing
natural gas pipeline
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Smoke bellows from a smokestack near the main stadium and aquatics center on the Olympic Green in Beijing. While the city has spent about $12 billion since 2001 on an environmental clean-up, bad air remains the International Olympic Committee's main concern.
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The new national stadium, referred to as the Bird's Nest, is the nut of the eco-friendly effort, with its well-publicized rainwater-capture system meant to irrigate the infield. It will reportedly be supplied by the first wind power plant in Beijing.
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The Guanting Wind Farm here in Beijing is the city's first large-scale use of wind power and just one of the projects that will be used to try to fulfill the city's Olympic promise of a "Green Olympics."
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The base of a wind turbine is in its final stages of being erected at the Guanting Wind Farm last summer.
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Trees are another front in the air clean-up effort, with plans to plant 2.5 billion trees this year, 10 percent more than last year.
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An oil worker inspects one of the wells at the Kela 2 Gas Field in Baicheng county in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The gas field supplies natural gas to major cities like Beijing and Shanghai through the pipelines of the "West Gas to East Project."
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By 2020, China is expecting to produce 10 percent of its energy from renewable sources, namely wind, solar energy, hydroelectric dams, and bio-wastes.

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