Results from the pollution reduction test

If high numbers are good, then we passed! I saw this story from danwei, thought I would chime in. Wait, but I’m reading from other blogs that a high number is actually bad.  hmmm…. That’s not too good, is it? The chart above comes from the State Environmental Protection Administration of China, so, a government organization.  If you go here, you can make your own really cool charts - in English too! The air quality didn’t improve at all during the 4 days.  And as one of the blogs I linked to above mention, Monday the 20th is missing from the chart.  What does that mean? Well, here’s a picture I took on Monday morning from my apartment: Oh, right….  Monday’s air was noticeably worse than Sunday’s (here’s a picture I took on Sunday from my apartment):