China to scrap millions of cars in anti-pollution push

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China to scrap millions of cars in anti-pollution push

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/china-5-million-old-cars-off-road-2014-055951644.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/GXCIDrstOm8hwJda3r0HtQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-05-26T085750Z_1_LYNXMPEA4P07Q_RTROPTP_2_CHINA-ENVIRONMENT.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A tricycle travels past a crossroad on a hazy day in Hefei" align="left" title="A tricycle travels past a crossroad on a hazy day in Hefei" border="0" /></a>By David Stanway and Kathy Chen BEIJING (Reuters) - China plans to take more than five million ageing vehicles off the roads this year in a bid to improve air quality, with 330,000 cars set to be decommissioned in Beijing alone, the government said in a policy document published on Monday. Pollution has emerged as an urgent priority for China's leaders as they try to reverse the damage done by decades of breakneck growth and head off public anger about the sorry state of the nation's air, water and soil. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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