Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Beijing 2007




My first impression when plane landed at Beijing International airport was grey color sky. I thought it was because of cloudy condition, but it was actually partially cloudy. Sky is basically covered by a thick layer of grey color air. Even it's right after raining, the thick layer is still there. You can look directly into sun without any protections.
Since people started buying private owned cars in Beijing more than one decade ago, it has been out of control. There are just too many cars in Beijing area. Pollution is incredible.
Chinese government is going to control number of the cars on the street around Olympic time. Car's license plate ends with an odd number can come out on one week, even number can come out on the other week. That basically cut down the car numbers on the street by half. Hopefully that will out alittle bit, because the air definitely needs to be cleaned up during Olympic.