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Smog disrupts daily life in Nanjing

On Thursday at 10 am, Nanjing Lukou International Airport was shut down and more than 60 flights were delayed.

All four of the bridges across Yangtze River in Nanjing were also shut down in the morning and ferries across the river in the city's Pukou dock were closed because visibility was less than 30 meters.

Visibility in some remote areas of the city, such as Jiangxin Island, was less than 50 meters in the morning.

All expressways in Jiangsu province were closed until noon.

Wu Zhiwen, a resident of Nanjing's Pukou district, said she feels bad for her 5-year-old daughter because she has to breathe in this polluted air.

"After I used the air purifier for an hour, a red light popped up telling me that the air in the room was severely polluted," she said.

Liu Jianlin, chief engineer at the environmental protection bureau for Jiangsu province, said industrial emissions contribute most to the city's air pollution.

"Emissions from cars, farmers burning straw and dust from many infrastructure construction sites have made the situation even worse," Liu said.

She added that the air pollution can only be improved if cities throughout the region work together.

"The work of environmental protection departments is far from enough," she said.

The National Meteorological Center in Beijing renewed on Thursday a yellow alert for fog and smog as dense air continues to choke China's eastern and northern provinces, including Shandong, Hebei, Shanxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and Jiangxi. A yellow alert is the third highest in China's four-level alert system.