Smog defies all-out efforts to deliver blue skies for China’s 19th Party Congress

October 20, 2017 6:55 PM

BEIJING (AFP) – Beijingers are going without barbecue. Construction sites have halted work. Factories hundreds of kilometres away have halted production.

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