It’s spring, and less grittily so than usual. Not that the air is clean, of course, but the days are warming and lengthening, and the skies are blue or something like it, and we appear to be in the middle of Beijing’s spring allotment of nice... ...full story at bokane
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| 31 Jan 09 |
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Spring Festival 2009 Beijing »
YouTube video one of the never ending days of noise with nice fireworks |
| 06 Apr 09 |
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Beijing spring days » Danwei Spring has come to Beijing, with temperatures in the 20s Celsius (or 80s Fahrenheit) and beautiful blue skies yesterday and today. The photo above was taken not far from Beijing in Hebei yesterday. You can see the moon rising above the Wall just to the... |
| 01 Jan 08 |
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Beijing has 246 'blue sky'days last year » Shanghai Daily THE "blue sky" days in Beijing, or days with fairly good air quality, reached 246 in 2007, five more days than 2006, local environment authorities said yesterday. The figure means 67.4 percent of days last year saw blue skies in the Chinese capital, a... |
| 03 Jan 08 |
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Beijing estimates around 10 sand and dust weather days this spring » People's Daily Beijing will suffer between eight to 11 days of sand weather in the upcoming spring, said chief of the city's meteorological station on Thursday. The estimation was close to the average level of 9.7 days in recent years, but far exc ... |
| 15 Aug 08 |
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Beijing 2008: Urban Hiking and Blue Sky Days » Granite Studio I took advantage of the sunny skies to do some urban hiking through the legation quarter, up through Tiananmen Square and back over to Wangfujing. Some random TGIF thoughts: Today was a BLUE SKY day. We’re talking 蓝 freaking 天. First one... |
| 19 Jun 08 |
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Blue Sky Dreaming » China Journal Perhaps Xinhua, China’s official newswire, has a sense of humor? Today was one of most polluted days we’ve seen in Beijing for a while. According to the government, today’s pollution level was 3.1– which by official measures means... |