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Peeking potpourri
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 | | | | Baseball venue: Beijing started construction last Thursday on the venue for the baseball competition of the 2008 Olympic Games. The Wukesong Baseball Field, one of the nine temporary competition venues planned for the 2008 Games, is a component of the Wukesong Cultural and Sports Centre, which is located in the west of Beijing. With a seating capacity of 15,000, the baseball field includes two competition pitches and one training pitch | |
| Blue sky
Beijing has had 230 "blue sky" days this year as of last Wednesday, fulfilling the pre-set target for the year 10 days ahead of schedule. It is the seventh year in a row of air quality improvement in the national capital. Greater efforts were made to improve the quality of air in Beijing this year. The capital removed 4,000 old polluting buses and 30,000 cabs from service and replaced them with new vehicles meeting newly promulgated state standards for pollution control. | |
Trees-on of goodwill : Several Christmas trees were put up in Beijing's Xidan shopping district, during the relatively warm Christmas period in Beijing. Many people hung cards of goodwill on the trees in order to get good luck, although karma states that doing good deeds is a better way to a peaceful life. | |
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