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* China - To hold first-ever 'no car day' on Saturday
Beijing,China -The China Daily/ AFP/gminsidenews.com (USA) -Sep 17, 2007: -- China will initiate its first-ever nationwide "no car day" this weekend in an effort to promote environmental health and alleviate increasingly gridlocked urban roads, state press said Monday... Residents in 108 cities will be urged to take public transport, ride bikes or walk on the nation's first "no car day" on Saturday... Government officials and state-run enterprise employees in some cities would be encouraged not to drive, while other urban centres would ban government-owned cars from taking to the roads altogether, it added... (AFP/File Photo: File photo shows motorists caught in a traffic jam in Beijing)
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