147 firms in capital act to reduce emissions
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With smog lingering over Beijing for a week, 147 industrial enterprises had cut or suspended production as of yesterday as part of the capital’s measures to combat pollution.
On Friday, city authorities initiated a response mechanism to tackle pollution and upgraded its smog alert to orange, the second highest level, for the first time.
Of the 147 firms, 36 had halted production while another 75 cut production to reduce emission discharges by the 30 percent required by the response mechanism. The other 36 firms voluntarily limited production, the Beijing Economic and Information Commission said.
The capital maintained its orange pollution alert yesterday, as the density of PM2.5, the tiny particles hazardous to health, measured over 400 in the city proper.
On Monday, the commission dispatched 25 inspection teams to enforce measures to reduce emissions. District-level environment authorities had set up 45 inspection groups since Friday to carry out spot checks.
Beijing Five Star Tsingdao Beer Co Ltd was among the companies required to limit pollution with four of its six production lines idle since Friday.
Company manager Yu Longqian said the firm halted some production lines to meet emission reduction pledges. It had reduced daily output by 300-500 tons of beer, nearly half its daily production.
The measure means the firm has reduced coal burning in its coal-fired boilers by 40 percent.
Yu said the company had to shoulder its environmental responsibility in spite of economic losses.
Under measures taken in response to the orange smog alert, the city has also required building work to stop and banned barbecues.
Li Jianfei, a law enforcement officer with the city’s environmental monitoring team, said their inspection found firms had been complying with production reduction orders, but there were problems with illegal garbage burning and improper control of construction dust.
Yesterday morning, northeast China’s Liaoning Province and the eastern province of Shandong closed expressways after visibility fell below 50 meters.
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