At one time there were fears China’s biggest cities would become uninhabitable because of pollution. But since Premier Li Keqiang’s declaration of war, the level of pollution has dropped by a third on average– with more work still to be done.

CGTN’s Jim Spellman has a report on efforts being made to reduce pollution in China.

Follow Jim Spellman on Twitter @jimspellmanTV

To discuss China’s war on pollution:

• Wenran Jiang heads the Canada-China Energy and Environment Forum in Edmonton, Canada.
• Jeffrey Ball is Scholar-in-Residence at Stanford Law School’s Center for Energy Policy and Finance in Palo Alto, California.
• Huang Wei is an East Asia Climate and Energy Campaigner for Greenpeace in China.
• Jennifer Turner is the director of the China Environment Forum at the Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.

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#India, #China faces double burden of indoor and outdoor air pollution https://t.co/0Pcf0scNZ5

— CGTN (@CGTNOfficial) April 18, 2018

China has a found a novel way to tackle its massive air pollution problem: Putting up a giant air purifier the size of an industrial smokestack in the middle of a smog-plagued city https://t.co/eIGpl1s81W pic.twitter.com/ss9gRGdIBR

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) April 18, 2018