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problem is that China is now starting full-scale winter heating.
There are still many places in China for coal.
In addition, as the Corona 19 subsides, the utilization rate of factories in China is expected to recover to the previous year.
Correspondent Kim Ji-sung from Beijing reports.
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The sky in Shandong Province in eastern China is hazy.
It's hard to tell even one inch ahead with the fog.
In Binzhou City, Shandong Province, the air quality index, AQI, soared to 271, the critical stage.
[Inhabitants of Shandong Province, China: Smog was severe from yesterday, but it was also hazy today.] As
Beijing also recorded an air quality index of 124, a yellow warning, the second out of four stages of air pollution, was issued.
The air is clearly worse than two days ago, but it is the first time this year that a yellow warning has been issued in Beijing.
In the Hebei area near Beijing, highways were partially blocked due to fine dust, and Tianjin City started emergency response to reduce pollutants.
China's fine dust is likely to get worse.
Immediately, major cities in China, such as Beijing and Xi'an, started heating in earnest.
Although the Chinese authorities are gradually replacing heating fuel with electricity or gas, there are still many places that use coal.
[China Railway Neimonggu official: Since November, an average of 400,000 tons of coal has been shipped per day.
This is an average increase of 13.1% per day compared to October.] As
economic activity declined due to the corona crisis, China's fine dust, which had been quiet for a while, is showing signs of a rise again.