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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=4 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold'>Beijing
Seeks Monthly Car-Free Day to Ease Air Pollution<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Tuesday, May 16, 2006<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p><span class=GramE><b><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold'>BEIJING
—</span></font></b></span><b><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold'> <a
href="javascript:siteSearch('Beijing');"><font color="#990000"><span
style='color:#990000;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>Beijing</span></font></a>
is asking residents to leave their cars at home for one day a month to help
improve air quality, the city environmental agency said Tuesday.</span></font></b><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:black'>The voluntary campaign, targeting more than
200,000 members of Beijing's driving associations, aims to boost the number
of days with 'fairly good' air quality in the capital to 238, five more than
last year, said the statement from the <a
href="javascript:siteSearch('Beijing%20Municipal%20Environmental%20Protection%20Bureau');"><b><font
color="#990000"><span style='color:#990000;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:
none;text-underline:none'>Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau</span></font></b></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:black'>Beijing added new vehicles at the rate of
about 1,000 a day last year, giving the city a total of 2.6 million vehicles,
half of them private cars, officials with city transportation agencies said
earlier this year.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:black'>Vehicle emissions are the leading cause of
Beijing's air pollution, with vehicles spewing out 3,600 tons of pollution
each day, it said.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:black'>Beijing launched a program to reduce <a
href="javascript:siteSearch('air%20pollution');"><b><font color="#990000"><span
style='color:#990000;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;text-underline:
none'>air pollution</span></font></b></a> in 1998, when the city had only 100
days with fairly good air quality each year, it said.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:black'>The president of the Friends of Nature
environmental group, a co-sponsor of the initiative, told The Associated
Press the request was symbolic but better than nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:black'>"We don't keep so much hope on
this," said <span class=SpellE>Liang</span> <span class=SpellE>Congjie</span>.
"But we think it will make a little difference."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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