Even statues are suffering ...
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The smog is so bad even Beijing’s statues wear masks. Or at least they do in pictures of a campus stunt that circulated online yesterday as parts of northern China suffered a sixth straight day of severe pollution.
After being cooped inside because of the bad air, a student at Peking University ventured out to place masks on statues of Spanish novelist Miguel de Cervantes (as pictured right), Communist Party co-founder Li Dazhao and a sage practicing tai chi.
“I was feeling really low, so I came up with this idea,” Jiang Chao said.
Beijing remained cloaked in hazardous white pollution hiding much of its skyline yesterday, despite the closures or production cuts at 147 of the city’s industrial plants.
PM2.5 readings reached 444 micrograms per cubic meter in central Beijing yesterday, according to the National Meteorological Center. The World Health Organization considers 25 micrograms a safe level.
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