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Article: Beijing will pay car owners and won't ban migrants as part of Olympic restrictions
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- March 8, 2008
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Beijing will compensate car owners barred from driving on city streets during the Olympics and will not totally ban migrants, state media reported Saturday, in signs the government wants to take some of the sting out of restrictions planned for the August games.
The government is working on a compensation scheme for car owners during the Games when private cars will be restricted to driving every other day, newspapers and television reports said, citing remarks by Vice Mayor Ji Lin.
Ji acknowledged that the city was tightening controls on the swarms of rural migrants in China's capital by stepping up inspections of the permits residents are supposed to have.
But ...