Chifeng in Inner Mongolia sets out to treat its air pollution as a result of coal burning, especially during the winter heating season.

It launches a blue sky program and tries to treat pollution with coal as a fuel in summer. The targets are, first of all, the coal-burning boilers.

It asks restaurants to purify their kitchen smoke, build communities in downtown that use clean energy and centralized heating supply districts where no individual coal-burning boilers are permitted.

(www.cenews.com.cn May 14, 2003)