Like Science Fiction: China Reduced Air Pollution by 98 Percent in 12 Years in its Capital Beijing

Beijing, the capital of China, has surprised the world by achieving a historic transformation in air quality in less than a decade.

In Beijing, which was shown as one of the cities with the dirtiest air in the world in 2013, the levels of harmful particulate matter known as PM2.5 showed a tremendous drop. This development, closely…