This reads like it was written by the Chinese government.
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Because it was.
They forcefully shut down a lot of the polluting businesses around the city, just straight up locked them and told the owners to go fuck themselves.
When the smog acts up, people get told they can't drive based on even/odd license plates. Remaining factories get told to pause operations.
They "solved" it by enforcing absolutely draconian measures, and mostly pushing those industries to elsewhere in the country.
Shutting down polluting businesses, relocating others away from where people live, and traffic congestion control are all valid approaches to air pollution control, used not only in China but around the world. Not sure why you need to put scare quotes around the word "solved".
There's establishing regulations and providing time for adjustments, then there's what China did.
Authoritarianism is still bad, even if the result is good.
Because no, the solution to pollution is not dilution.
They forcefully shut down a lot of the polluting businesses around the city, just straight up locked them and told the owners to go fuck themselves.
Based.
When the smog acts up, people get told they can’t drive based on even/odd license plates. Remaining factories get told to pause operations.
Based.
They “solved” it by enforcing absolutely draconian measures
Based.
and mostly pushing those industries to elsewhere in the country.
Half-truth.
Go live in China if it's so amazing.
I’ve noticed a lot of pro China straw man arguments on lemmy
China is really outdoing itself lately. It's like a press release from Pyongyang... Couldn't help myself not to read it in her voice
It is, they try to pretend to be a functioning government.
Hey, why don't you go outside and play a little bit? Ah, right, you live in a hell hole where there's smoke everywhere, that's the sign of a functioning government.
How's the healthcare over there?
Glad they sorted out the air, but I hope that those who were affected can get help for the lung damage sustained after all those years of breathing it in.
Long-ass lines in hospital waiting rooms for basic doctor's visits, unless you go to a private hospital ($$$$) or you know someone who's a doctor. Then you skip the line... which ofc makes things worse for people in line.
Basic things don't cost as much though, but the main issue is access and not cost.
Basic, but functional-ish.
You need to pay something but it's ridiculously low, basically everyone can afford it as far as I know.
They fixed this year's ago, I was there in the mid and late 2010s and it was clear they were cleaning it up.
The atmosphere isn't the concern imho, the government is, it's a superpower with a government that still acts out of caprice and the only hope is to keep your head down.
I'm in Beijing right now, last month good, but this spring was pretty bad