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00:00A package here in Beijing this week. And so are the blue skies . The central authorities have worked hard to make sure it turns out this way. They've cut production at steel mills and factories in neighboring provinces. They've shut down power plants stop construction in some 400 sites in Tianjin limited the number of cars on the streets and even banned roadside barbecues. Now all of that has culminated in this beautiful day . Let me show you my air quality index at first thing I check every morning. An excellent 13 with P. M. 2.5 reading on a very healthy 3. The Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau says this is the highest level of a contingency plan for Beijing . And you can tell because look at what the year in Beijing looks like. Beijing resident Joey took one photo every day of the same building for a year. And it adds up to a lot more grace and blues. Even then only a handful of blue sky days like this . Still a meteorologist says national weather patterns may be working against the best efforts of the government next week . So it remains to be seen at the Beijing government can keep its image clean for a pack or if the grime will sweep in .

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