It's become commonplace for some of us to pay for bottled water, but now in China you can pay for bottled air---
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/ar...-tourists.html
Mel Brooks sucking down canned air in
Spaceballs. Mel was a prophet and didn't even know it.
Li Keqiang a few months a go announced to the NPC that the government were "declaring war" on pollution. Exactly what that means is anybody's guess, and we've heard anti-pollution rhetoric from the Chinese government before with little result, so I won't hold my breath. Unless I'm in Beijing of course.