Its green medal hopes are lost but Beijing must race on
For the past 30 years, Beijing's frenetic modernisation has followed an outdated and unsustainable path - a city of the car, strangled by multiplying ringroads and congested urban motorways, the bicycles and buses that used to predominate pushed off the road by private vehicles. In earlier times, heavy industry plant was situated in the capital, and Mao Zedong would point proudly to smokestacks as evidence of progress. The public health legacy of both ... Full Story »
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