With a little more than a week before the start of the Olympic Games, officials are considering even tougher measures to reduce persistent smog that has shrouded China's capital in recent days.
With the prospect of international embarrassment looming, officials are considering shutting even more factories and possibly banning as many as 90% of Beijing's private vehicles on especially bad days, officials say.
More than a week after traffic restrictions and other measures took effect, the Chinese capital remains mired in a gray haze, and the government's pollution readings have exceeded its own safe levels on four of the past eight days. The city has been blanketed in hot, humid weather with little wind to blow pollution away, worsening the situation, officials say.
'I'm concerned,' says Zhu Tong, the environmental scientist at China's prestigious Peking University who was in charge of drafting Beijing's blueprint for bluer skies. Pollution is proving tougher to beat than anyone expected, he says.
In the years since Beijing won the Games in 2001 and promised to deliver clear air for Olympic athletes, it has invested billions to clean up its murky air.
But Beijing's reputation is causing athletes to worry. Some have pulled out of endurance events, such as the marathon, that would have exposed them longer to Beijing's air. In other cases, teams are considering wearing masks at least some of the time in Beijing, and other teams have relocated their last-minute practice outside China to cleaner, neighboring countries.
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