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Article: Beijing air quality reaches hazardous level on May Day
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- May 1, 2006
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Beijing air quality reaches hazardous level on May Day
BEIJING, May 1 (Xinhua) -- Holidaymakers in the Chinese capital
are being told to expect better weather in the next few days after
the week-long May Day celebration got off to a dusty and polluted
start.
Air quality in Beijing hit "hazardous" levels on Monday after a
haze of dust from areas southeast of Beijing hovered over the city
from Sunday afternoon, said the Beijing Environmental Protection
Bureau.
It rated the air quality as level five, the highest on the
bureau's classification system, when the city normally issues
warnings to elderly people and children to stay indoors and avoid
strenuous activities.
From 4 p.m. Sunday to 8 ...