think archipelago V8 Nov 2014
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sk<br />
The cold of winter in Beijing gets<br />
harsher as it is usually followed by<br />
persistent windblows night and day.<br />
The undulating smokes coming out of old<br />
chimneys on a freezing noon is an<br />
evidence of the windswept cosmopolitant<br />
area. The sky is bright, but not clear.<br />
This suggests heavy air pollution.<br />
Regardless the wind currents or to<br />
which direction it blows, the constant<br />
smokes from numerous industrial<br />
chimneys scattered across the capital—<br />
the founder of People’s Republic of<br />
China Mao Zedong’s criterium of<br />
economic prowess in early 50s—have<br />
never got away anywhere outside the<br />
city. Mao’s vision of the future strong<br />
China has transformed into a haunting<br />
amount of carbon dioxide and dust that<br />
linger up there in the sky through<br />
changing seasons. There have been<br />
systematic attempts to drive the<br />
industrial output away from the<br />
capital, long marred by pollution<br />
issue. Since the enactment, the<br />
relocation decree of dirty industry to<br />
neighboring cities such as Hebei have<br />
made the chimneys dissappeared from
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