Junior College: Residents wore protective masks as they walked through the thick haze of gray smog that shrouded Beijing`s skyline.
Schools closed and rush-hour roads were much quieter than normal as the alert closed many factories and imposed restrictions to keep half the city`s vehicles off the roads.
Although many other cities in China and elsewhere in the world typically see levels of smog even worse than Wednesday`s pollution in Beijing, the Chinese capital`s latest bout of smog has triggered its first...