Reports: China shutters factories as latest smog crisis escalates

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Cities across the country reportedly enact new emergency measures in desperate attempt to tackle air pollution

Just days after new figures were released showing a drastic slowdown in the growth of China's coal industry, the scale of the smog crisis facing the country was again highlighted as air pollution again...

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