{"id":30867,"date":"2013-08-30T08:28:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T04:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=30867"},"modified":"2013-08-30T08:28:02","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T04:28:02","slug":"hong-kong-phooey-regions-smog-is-so-bad-desperate-tourism-chiefs-set-up-posters-of-sunny-skyline-so-holidaymakers-can-take-some-nice-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=30867","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong phooey! Region&#8217;s smog is so bad, desperate tourism chiefs set up posters of sunny skyline so holidaymakers can take some nice photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Hong-Kong-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-30847\" alt=\"Hong Kong 7\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Hong-Kong-7.jpg\" width=\"644\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Hong-Kong-7.jpg 644w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Hong-Kong-7-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Hong-Kong-7-415x300.jpg 415w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/a>The air pollution in Hong Kong has gotten so bad that tourism officials have put up a banner displaying what the skyline looks like on a clear day.<\/p>\n<p>This week, Hong Kong&#8217;s Air Pollution Index&#8217; reached &#8216;Very High&#8217; in Central and Western District, Causeway Bay and Mongkok, with &#8216;very high&#8217; levels of toxic ozone and nitrogen dioxide recorded at roadside monitoring stations.<\/p>\n<p>Smog is a big problem in China were it was recently reported life expectancy has been by five-and-a-half years for those living in its polluted north.<br \/>\nResearchers estimate that the half-billion people who lived there in the 1990s will live an average of 5 and a half years less than their southern counterparts because they breathed dirtier air from coal burning.<\/p>\n<p>China itself made the comparison possible: for decades, a now-discontinued government policy provided free coal for heating, but only in the colder north.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, air quality in Beijing reached &#8216;worst on record&#8217; following a sand storm which led to pollution in the city rising to 30 to 45 times above recommended safety levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The air pollution in Hong Kong has gotten so bad that tourism officials have put&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":30847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[1609],"class_list":["post-30867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-hong-kong","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}