Comments on: Beijing lays the slap down on polluting vehicles - foreign and domestic KO’d

By: Gerald

Gerald — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:09:36 +0000

I find this interesting as a quick browse of a recent car magazine lists many models as meeting IV standards, but not V.

By: jackson liu

jackson liu — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:22:46 +0000

typical chinese desperate-fake-unfair solutions
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put some make up on Beijing to make it look prettier when it is on the spotlights…
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it’s like living in a filthy hole, but getting your house all cleaned up and shiny when you have guests home.
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(before accusations, I don’t mean beijing is a filthy hole, don’t get me wrong..)

By: dragin

dragin — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:48:03 +0000

One of them is the old Beijing Auto Works itself. With the ongoing sprawl of the capital, it’s almost downtown now. Recycling the huge amounts of wastewater in an automotive production plant, as Honda and Toyota do so well, is something that I doubt BAW has refitted the old plant to do. Not to speak of the paint solvent vapors that need recovering.
Anyway I’m more concerned that Beijing is just doing all of this banning for the approval of the Olympics crowd, and not for the long term well being of its own people.

By: mememe

mememe — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:45:31 +0000

@ Collin G

The pollution in Beijing is also largely due to cars on the streets as well.

Beijing has already shut down alot of old factories and power stations

By: Ash

Ash — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:11:40 +0000

Its not around China, its in the Beijing area alone. Beijing is a municipality, making it basically on par with a province - they can lay down laws like this no problem. Im not sure as to how many big pollutin’ factories are left in the Beijing area, they’ve really cleaned that town up. The biggest problem with Beijing is that it was built in the flat lands between mountains giving it a bowl effect, all the pollution has no where to go, it just sits above Beijing.

By: Colin G

Colin G — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:09:28 +0000

I don’t get the reasoning behind this. Surely these cars are polluting less than some of the factories around china, and you don’t see them being told to shut up shop!!

By: Ash

Ash — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:12:39 +0000

Chery have the A1 and A5 that I believe may be upto Chinese 5 standards for the Beijing area.

A3 will be also Chinese 5, for the Beijing markets only I bet though!

By: Jonny Boy

Jonny Boy — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:38:59 +0000

So that means Chery would have no vehicles to sell in Beijing? Any idea which Chinese own brand cars have met the Chinese 5 standard?