Beijing Gearing Up for Spring Cleaning

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Beijing Gearing Up for Spring Cleaning

The Beijing municipal government has been working on a massive plan to improve environment and prepare the stage for 2008 Olympics.

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The Beijing municipal government has been working on a massive plan to improve environment and prepare the stage for 2008 Olympics.

Wednesday's China Daily reported that under Beijing's environmental working agenda for this year, the national capital will accelerate its afforestation process and upgrade pollution control and garbage disposal to build a "greener and cleaner city with a blue sky."

The city will build 1,333 hectares of green areas by the end ofthis year. Meanwhile, 93 hectares of illegal buildings will be demolished and replaced with green land.

The ongoing construction of the city's Fifth Ring Road will also include an afforestation project covering 1,960 hectares of grassland along the roadside.

A three-year green plan for the capital's suburbs, which started at the beginning of 2000, will be completed by the end of this year.

Under the project, a green belt covering over 300 square kilometers will surround the city and provide an ecological shield.

The government has also promised to increase total natural gas consumption this year to 1.8 billion cubic meters, and build another 12 sewage treatment plants.

According to the city's forestry bureau, Beijing injected more than 30 billion yuan (3.6 billion U.S. dollars) into environmentalprotection between 1998 and 2001.

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