China supporting "clean air tourism" for Beijing residents

[Milk]

[url]http://www.marketplace.org/topics/world/chinese-province-offers-clean-air-tourism-suffering-urbanites[/url]

[QUOTE]Boasting about clean air may seem to set the bar pretty low. But in a country where [b]just one percent of half a billion urban residents breathe air judged safe by European Union standards, Fujian’s strategy is paying off.[/QUOTE][/b]

[QUOTE]A guide holding a neon pink flag in one hand and a megaphone in the other corrals a group of tourists along an island pathway overlooking the sea in the city of Xiamen. On this particular day, Xiamen’s level of what’s known as PM2.5 --[b] particulate matter in the air small enough to enter your blood stream -- hovers around 45. That’s dirtier than the most-polluted day on record in Los Angeles over a 24-hour period.[/b] But these folks are from Beijing, where on this day the level is 10 times as bad.[/QUOTE]
Basically, they're allowing tourists living in beijing to vacation in carless towns/cities made for tourism, the main attraction being a lack of smog or air pollution

even so, this carless settlement is still more polluted than Los Angeles on average.

[Computermaster]

It's pretty sad when your air is [I][B]THAT AWFUL.[/B][/I]

[Milk]

I think the air in a can thing was more of a political statement

[Vaught]

Business-wise, smart stuff. And hopefully the money goes into things that [b]get rid of/clean up the fucking smog[/b]. But I'm not holding my breath for that. If anything, they'll just forget the smog and make lots of money off of the tourism to "clean air" spots.

[Chinook249]

At first I thought they'd just give people gas masks to tour in