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A View of Cooling Towers at a Shougang Group Steel Plant |
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A view of cooling towers at a Shougang Group steel plant on the outskirts of Beijing.
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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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Story by Darren Whiteside |
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Photo by DARREN WHITESIDE |
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REUTERS NEWS PICTURE SERVICE
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