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Article: Beijing air pollution index down more than 20 percentage points during Olympics

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August 23, 2008
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Beijing, Aug. 23 -- The Air Pollution Index (API) in the Olympic host city has dropped by over 20 percentage points compared with the same period last year, said an official here on Saturday.

The API declined from around 80 points last year to about 56 during the Olympic Games in August, said Du Shaozhong, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Environmental Bureau at a ...

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