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Saturday, November 25, 2000, updated at 10:34(GMT+8)
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White Snow Seen in Heavily Polluted Chinese City

Citizens in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin Province, are excited to see white snow this winter.

Changchun, a heavy industrial city, used to suffer from serious air pollution due to industrial emission and coal burning in the wintertime to heat households. People there have been accustomed to grey-colored snow on cold days.

The city government this year turned down many chimneys and hundreds of boilers in the city area and expanded central heating to more than half of the city region.

Besides, the city also accomplished building a 550 meter-wide green belt along a 90-kilometer highway, surrounding the city, and increasing the green coverage rate to nearly 40 percent.

Statistics show the city in recent years abolished nearly 100,000 chimneys, reducing 15,000 tons of coal to be burnt and 900 tons of discharged coal fumes to improve the environment.







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Citizens in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin Province, are excited to see white snow this winter.

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