China to take six million older vehicles off roads

[CityFarmer]

Six million older car, out of total 240 million car on the road now, means only 2-3%. It should be minimum impact for new car sales, and supporting industrial...

China to take six million older vehicles off roads

BEIJING — China’s government plans to take six million older, polluting vehicles off the roads this year in an effort to revive stalled progress towards cleaning up smog-choked cities.

The plan also calls for petrol stations in Beijing, Shanghai and other major cities to switch to selling only the cleanest grades of petrol and diesel, said a Cabinet statement issued on Monday.

The order comes after China failed to meet official pollution-reduction goals for 2011 to last year, the statement said. It said vehicles registered before 2005 that fail to meet cleaner emissions standards will be phased out, though it did not say how.

It called the country’s environmental situation extremely grim.
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http://www.todayonline.com/chinaindia/ch...cles-roads

[sgd]

car is one of the factors of pollution but the biggest contributor is burning coal.

china is now so rich why they don't want to switch to nuclear like the japanese did in the 70's, it's cleaner and cheaper.

[egghead]

China already has nuclear power plants and hydro

[specuvestor]

Try doing that to the oil guzzlers of USA

[BlueKelah]

Their main problems are the coal guzzling steel and power plants. China is going through what other developing economies have gone through in the past. History is just repeating itself. They will eventually have to clean up their act. They must be having lots of acid rain by now which will start wiping out flora and fauna in their forests much like what happened previously in Europe.

[Stephentoh]

car is one of the factors of pollution but the biggest contributor is burning coal.

china is now so rich why they don't want to switch to nuclear like the japanese did in the 70's, it's cleaner and cheaper.

because china has rich coal mine reserves and its cheaper to burn and generate electricity. Prices of coal have dropped steeper these few years hence its more economical to burn coal in this country then to export the coals unearthed. Enviroment, hmmm they might just buy their way our through the province government

[sgd]

later a lot of people in pollution affected areas going develop chronic health issues related to lung problems.