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CLEAN AIR CAMPAIGN * China - Targets buses, trucks
About 1,900 public buses are to be refitted and thousands of trucks will be rerouted around Beijing this summer
Beijing,China -The China Daily, by Xin Dingding -20 June 2008: -- ... From next month, all commercial passenger buses entering Beijing will be required to meet national emissions standards, it said... After a two-month investigation that began in March, the Ministry found that 2,610 long-distance buses entering the city failed emissions tests... The government will pay a subsidy of 50,000 yuan ($7,261.64) for the upgrading of each bus - about half the total cost - and their owners will pay the rest, he said... According to earlier reports, Beijing officials have promised zero emissions within core Olympic areas. In an effort to achieve that, in March, the government introduced the China IV emission standards, which is equivalent to the Euro IV standard... Also in March, Wan Gang, minister of science and technology, said more than 500 vehicles used within the core Olympic area - from cars to cranes - will be electric-powered... Beijing already uses more than 4,000 buses that run on natural gas, which emit just 20 percent of the pollutants spewed out by petrol buses...
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