BEIJING UNVEILS NEW TRAFFIC CURBS !
Officials wants to get some of Beijing's 3.3 million vehicles off its streets.
Beijing authorities have ordered firms, shops and other organisations to stagger work times to cut traffic volumes during the Olympics.
City officials say state-run businesses should not start work until 0900 - up to an hour later than usual.
They are also encouraging as many people as possible to work from home.
These are just some of the measures being introduced during the Olympics to cut vehicle numbers on the capital's clogged roads.
According to the new rules, government departments, organisations providing essential services and schools will operate as normal.
But large shopping centres will have to open and close later between 20 July and 20 September, after the end of the Paralympics.
Other institutions will also have to adjust clock-on and clock-off times.
Workers are being encouraged to work online if possible and arrange flexible working hours, according to the city government notice.
More measures to reduce the number of vehicles on Beijing's roads come into effect on 20 July.
From that date, individual cars will be allowed on the roads only on alternate days.
Your pictures: Beijing's skies
Beijing authorities have ordered firms, shops and other organisations to stagger work times to cut traffic volumes during the Olympics.
City officials say state-run businesses should not start work until 0900 - up to an hour later than usual.
They are also encouraging as many people as possible to work from home.
These are just some of the measures being introduced during the Olympics to cut vehicle numbers on the capital's clogged roads.
According to the new rules, government departments, organisations providing essential services and schools will operate as normal.
But large shopping centres will have to open and close later between 20 July and 20 September, after the end of the Paralympics.
Other institutions will also have to adjust clock-on and clock-off times.
Workers are being encouraged to work online if possible and arrange flexible working hours, according to the city government notice.
More measures to reduce the number of vehicles on Beijing's roads come into effect on 20 July.
From that date, individual cars will be allowed on the roads only on alternate days.
Your pictures: Beijing's skies
This measure is also aimed at cutting the city's notoriously bad air pollution during the Olympics and Paralympics.
There are other temporary restrictions to clean up the air.
Beijing Shougang Group, one of the capital's top polluters, announced it will cut production, and so pollution, by 70% over the next few months.
The company is in the process of moving its massive Beijing operation to neighbouring Hebei Province.
Shougang has now extinguished three of its four remaining blast furnaces in Beijing, according to state-run Xinhua news agency.
Other factories in nearby provinces have also cut production or closed temporarily to ensure clear skies above Beijing during the Olympics.
Air pollution remains a pressing problem, just weeks before the start of the Games on 8 August.
The International Olympic Committee says it could postpone endurance events of more than one hour on days when the pollution is too bad.
The capital's air remained smoggy and grey on Monday, even though the Beijing government claimed it was a "blue sky" day.
BBC NEWS REPORT.
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