China’s Pledge to Restore Blue Skies

• Main Author: Gong, Lina
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: East Asia and Asia Pacific; Country and Region Studies
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/80691; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42194
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The Chinese government declared a war to restore blue skies during the annual meeting of the National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s legislature, in March 2017. The increasing attention to air pollution by China’s leadership underscores the urgency of and the difficulty in addressing environmental...