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Updated Sunday, 9May2021-22: 53

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The level of air pollution is 500 times higher than what is considered dangerous by the World Health Organization.

When it starts to rain, what falls from the sky is yellowish water that soils the clothes as if one had taken a dip in the mud.

The unbreathable

smog

is the first surprise upon landing in

Urumqi

, capital of the

Xinjiang

Uyghur Autonomous Region

, China's largest province.

The second surprise comes from the public address of the bus on the way to the hotel

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