HK Approves Measures to Reduce Air PollutionThe Executive Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) approved a package of measures Tuesday to strengthen and enhance the effort to improve air quality.The package includes measures to provide adequate LPG filling stations for taxis within a very clearly-set time frame and to take forward the conversion of public light buses to LPG with the support of the government, said Chief Executive Tung Chee Hwa after an Executive Council meeting Tuesday. Tung pledged that the government will put forward measures to encourage all the other diesel vehicles, whether they are buses or other goods vehicles, to use low-sulfur diesel. "Air quality improvement is not something we can achieve overnight. But I am quite confident with the measures we have announced today, every year we'll see improvement in air quality, and by 2005, our air quality will be as good as New York or London, " he noted. He stressed that dealing with the quality of air is essential to the people's health and to maintaining Hong Kong's standing as an international financial center. "And I believe this package will meet the needs of our community and will have the support of the entire community," he said. |
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