This picture was taken out of my hotel window in Beijing using my Blackberry camera so the pixelation is not so good. Nonetheless, you can see how thick, soupy and disgusting the pollution is. Worst I've ever seen it. You could not see more than a half mile in any direction.....they may have cleaned up the city before the Olympics but now it seems they are back to their same old ways. Shameful, really. I practically needed a machete to cut thru the pollution on the way to my meetings. The building on this picture is actually part of the new CCTV building complex and recently went up in flames, destroying the entire project -- the new Beijing Mandarin Oriental hotel. You can't see the damage in this photo, but the building was charred and gutted from top to bottom. On the final night of Chinese New Year, revelers accidentally set it alight with errant fireworks. It made world news because it was designed by a reknowned international architect and is next door to the funky CCTV cantilevered building. Anyway, my hotel room would have been a prime spot to watch the firefighting action!
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