One of China’s top coal-producing provinces has vowed to slash its level of fine particle pollution by one-fifth by 2020, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday, citing the provincial government. China has adopted various measures from policing barbeques to halting industrial production in efforts to ease the yearly winter haze that hit the country earlier this month leaving cities veiled in foul-smelling smog. China’s northern Shanxi province aims to increase the proportion of days per year with good air quality to 75.4 percent, the agency said.
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Top China coal province vows 20 percent cut in pollution by 2020: Xinhua