Red alert issued in Beijing over air pollution

‘A red alert for air pollution has been issued in the Chinese capital of Beijing for the first time in 2016, as stifling smog is increasingly shrouding the metropolitan city and its surrounding areas in northeastern China.
The red alert, the highest in Beijing’s four-tiered, color-coded warning system, will begin at 08:00 p.m. local time on Friday and bans half of the capital’s private cars from moving along the streets with an odd-even number plate system in force.
According to a notice posted on the official website of Beijing’s municipal government on Monday, construction sites have also been ordered to close and further restrictions have been imposed on the production of some industrial plants and enterprises, as the hazardous pollution is expected to linger on the capital for the next five days.’
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