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Pro tip: if you're going to visit Beijing, do what I did and accidentally schedule your trip over the same dates as a major diplomatic summit. It was blue sky
by ajdlinux 9y ago
Pro tip: if you're going to visit Beijing, do what I did and accidentally schedule your trip over the same dates as a major diplomatic summit.
It was blue sky all week during APEC 2014, then on the last day before I headed for Seoul, it was wheels-up for Air Force One and right back to smog...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APEC_blue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APEC_blue
- derda 9y agoCan confirm with own anecdotal evidence, was there in 2007 and they told me there is some kind of communist party summit (and thus increased security in parts of the city). The sky was blue and Beijing was kind of beautiful. Sure enough 1 or 2 days after that summit was over you could barely see the other side of the street.
- SurrealSoul 9y agoI have accidentally done this twice now, pollution also tends to be the lowest in the fall
- DashRattlesnake 9y agoCan confirm. I visited just after Trump left, and the air was pretty good. Also, I've heard from locals that they're starting to relocate dirty industries to nearby cities that foreigners tend not to visit. I visited one, and there were a few days of pretty bad smog (but blue skys some days, too).