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Planet Ark World Environment News - in partnership with Colonial First State A View of Cooling Towers at a Shougang Group Steel Plant

Date: 18-Jul-08
Country: CHINA
Author: Darren Whiteside

A View of Cooling Towers at a Shougang Group Steel Plant Photo: Darren Whiteside
Photo: Darren Whiteside

The head of Shougang Group on Thursday smiled with satisfaction over this week's four days of blue skies, even as smoke and steam still wreathed his steel plant less than a month before the Olympics.

Beijing has ordered polluting plants in the capital city and surrounding provinces to either shut or meet emissions standards, to reduce air pollution during the Olympic Games that begin on August 8.

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