A deadline of October this year has been set for over 300 companies to move out of Beijing in a further effort to help with the capital’s poor air quality. The director of the Beijing Commission of Economy and Information Technology, Zhang Boxu, said that companies and factories with high rates of energy consumption will be relocated to neighboring provinces.

In 2013, around 290 companies were moved to designated areas and the results reported were significant. The hope now is that a further 300 will reduce emissions even more and continue to push Beijing towards a path of cleaner skies.

For now, companies will be moved to Hebei, Tianjin and Inner Mongolia but in the future the commission is looking to move firms further west to the central and western areas of China. Slowly but surely, the pollution once concentrated in Beijing will be spread out evenly among the nation’s other cities.

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