Our neighbor to the south is lucky enough to be the first Chinese city (as far as I know) to publish hourly updates of air quality, freely available to all on their website. This practice is now standard in most countries, and I hope that Beijingers can soon also get such valuable information. Right now, . . . → Continue Reading: Shanghai Gets Real-Time Air Quality Updates
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I subscribe to a free weekly email at expatpackage.com, whose goal is “to introduce Beijingers to one new cool thing each week”. A couple weeks ago they had a more serious piece on air pollution, with an interview by Dr Will Chickering, an emergency doctor at United Family hospital. Like myself, he is also a Beijing air pollution info-junkie and likes to share his public health perspective with Beijingers. I think it’s a great review, very quick and accessible, so I wanted to pass it along to my readers as well. You can read the full article here (Take a Deep Breath). Here’s a snippet: …Continue reading: Deep Breathing in Beijing: Air Pollution Interview… I’ve made so many posts regarding pollution in Beijing that I’ve created a new category to make it easier for everyone to find. Now, at the top of the website is a new link to “POLLUTION”, which lists the top articles about what I feel are the four major categories of pollution in Beijing: …Continue reading: Pollution in Beijing: Easy Access With New Reference Section… This is just a quick note to tell people that I’ve created a small widget, which you can see on the bottom right panel of each website page, which automatically streams the invaluable Air Quality Index from the U.S. Embassy’s pollution station. They provide hourly updates on PM2.5 and now ozone (which peaks right now, in June, always in the late afternoons). The widget has a tiny ad over it, but you can simply click that off. This is what the widget looks like: …Continue reading: Beijing’s Air Quality Index: Live Feed…
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Those of you interested in the state of China’s healthcare should scoot over to the Lancet’s current magazine, available for free online (partly, with free registration). The Lancet, one of the world’s top medical journals, has been running an almost-annual series of articles on China’s healthcare. This year’s articles are top notch, and fascinating even to the casual Sinophile. Among the articles are: 
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