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| An old joke was never check the stock market or government statistics to know the state of China’s economy, just look to the sky. When those gray skies are blue, the economists would say, start to worry. Well, the sky has been blue a lot this year, but in a bizarre coincidence, as economic growth here started to head toward 8 percent, we seem to be getting more polluted days. I’ll let you know what happens of the GDP numbers hit double digits. BEIJING, China — There’s something strange these days over Beijing, something many of us here have not seen for a very long time. As I look up, there’s this strange blue-looking color — at first I thought the officials may have been dying the pollution blue, or maybe I had lived here so long that I had forgotten what a sky should looked like. I’ve lived in Beijing for a little less than three years, but one of our local office workers made the remark that she had never seen such beautiful, white fluffy clouds, so I knew something had changed. Don’t get me wrong, this place is still polluted, but since the Beijing Olympics it seems the number of adversely polluted days is about the same as the number of really good days we had last year, in other words, not a lot. And it might just be making the people who live here a little happier, as well. In the parks, on the streets, many Beijingers seem to be smiling a little more, perhaps a bit more relaxed. So how did this happen? The government has been trying to clean up this city for years — building subway lines, converting buses and taxis to natural gas, and stopping cars from driving one day a week (a watered-down continuation of the tough traffic controls in place during the Olympics). Some major polluters, too, have been closed down and relocated — notably Beijing Capital Iron and Steel, the biggest single contributor to the city’s air pollution problem. Now that the Olympics are over there’s been a massive drop in construction, and so dust particles have been reduced. But also playing its part is the global economic slump; many of the factories which were meant to close temporarily for the Olympics have never re-opened. 這些天在北京一些事變得很奇怪，一些東西，我們在北京已經(jīng)很久沒有見過了。 當我抬頭看的時候，我們看到非常奇怪的藍色的天空。剛開始我甚至認為這是官方有意制造的藍色污染，或者我在北京住的時間太長了，以至于我忘記藍色天空是什么樣的。 我在北京住了快三年了，我們部門的一個雇員提醒了我，她從來沒有見過如此美麗的天空，如此蓬松雪白的云彩，我知道，一些東西改變了。不要讓我犯錯誤，這里依然存在污染，但是自從北京奧運會開始，我們遇到的極端糟糕的天數(shù)，和去年非常好的天數(shù)是一樣的。換句話說，有污染的日子還是很多。 這起碼讓生活在那里的人們感覺高興多了。在公園里，街道上，北京人的笑臉似乎更多了，也許他們感覺放松了。 那么，究竟怎么會成這樣的?政府試圖洗干凈這個城市已經(jīng)有很多年了，他們建造了許多地鐵，把公交車和出租車的燃料置換成天然氣，讓汽車每周有一天不 準出行(在奧運期間的汽車單雙號出行)。幾個主要的污染者，或者被關(guān)閉了或者搬離北京，特別是這個城市最大污染者—首鋼來開了北京。現(xiàn)在，奧運會已經(jīng)結(jié)束 了，建設(shè)規(guī)模已經(jīng)大幅度下降，所以空氣中的粉塵下降了不少。但是作為全球經(jīng)濟危機中的玩家，北京的許多的工廠在暫時關(guān)閉后就再也沒有開過。 一個古老的笑話是沒，不要去看股票市場或者政府的統(tǒng)計數(shù)據(jù)，要了解中國的經(jīng)濟情況，只要看看中國的天空。當那些灰色的天空變成藍色，經(jīng)濟學家應(yīng)該會說經(jīng)濟出問題了。 好吧，天空在今年是變藍了一些，但是奇怪的是，中國的經(jīng)濟正向保8邁進，污染的天氣卻變少了。我會讓你們知道當GDP增長兩位數(shù)的時候會發(fā)生什么。 |
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