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Smoggy skies of China

Pollution in China has been so severe lately that even state media has criticized government inaction.

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Smoggy skies of China

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  1. A group of expatriates walk along the Bund as they distribute face masks to pedestrians to raise awareness of air pollution in downtown Shanghai January 24, 2013. REUTERS-Carlos Barri

  2. People walk on a street past a power plant's cooling tower in Yingtan, Jiangxi province December 11, 2008. REUTERS-Stringe

  3. Chinese women, wearing masks to protect themselves from air pollution, walk down a main street in Xian, January 26, 2000. REUTERS-Andrew Won

  4. A woman wears a protective mask as she rides her bicycle in front of a painted landscape at the fence of a construction site in Beijing April 29, 2007. REUTERS-Reinhard Kraus

  5. Smoking chimneys are seen in front of residential buildings in Tianjin January 17, 2013. REUTERS-Petar Kujundzi

  6. A woman covers her head and face from the sun in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu province July 26, 2007. REUTERS-Sean Yon

  7. A worker walks along a railway track at a coking factory in Changzhi, Shanxi province August 28, 2009. REUTERS-Stringe

  8. Buildings under a hazy skyline in downtown Guangzhou, capital city of China's southern Guangdong province, November 17, 2004. REUTERS-Kin Cheun

  9. Chinese artist dissident Ai Weiwei poses with a gas mask in protest of the bad air quality in Beijing, in this handout photo taken on January 13, 2013 and provided to Reuters on January 15, 2013. REUTERS-Courtesy of Ai Weiwei-Handou

  10. The financial district of Pudong is seen on a hazy day in Shanghai January 21, 2013. REUTERS-Aly Son

  11. A general view shows a coal-burning power station at night in Xiangfan, Hubei province September 15, 2009. REUTERS-Stringe

  12. A Chinese woman wears a scarf to fend off dust as she rides a bicycle in Beijing February 26, 2004. REUTERS-Guang Ni

  13. A swallow flies past smoke billowing from the chimneys of a cement plant on the outskirts of Xiangfan, central China's Hubei province May 12, 2007. REUTERS-Stringe

  14. Passengers hold their breath as they wait for a tram at Hong Kong's Causeway Bay business district March 29, 2000. REUTERS-Staf

  15. A chimney billows smoke from a coal-burning power station behind pedestrians walking across a bridge in Beijing December 14, 2010. REUTERS-David Gra

  16. A man rides a bicycle during heavy fog in Wuhan, Hubei province December 6, 2011. REUTERS-Stringe

  17. A woman wears a mask as she does her morning exercise outdoors in Fuyang, Anhui province, January 14, 2013. REUTERS-China Dail

  18. People walk past a power plant in Shanghai December 5, 2009. REUTERS-Aly Son

  19. A woman wearing a mask walks on a pedestrian bridge on a hazy day in Beijing January 23, 2013. REUTERS-Jason Le

  20. Smoke rises from chimneys of a power plant in Changzhi, Shanxi province November 17, 2009. REUTERS-Stringe

  21. A cleaner wears a face mask as she works in front of the giant portrait of former Chinese chairman Mao Zedong at Beijing's Tiananmen Gate June 5, 2012. REUTERS-David Gra

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