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Updated 3:23 AM ET, Thu October 25, 2012

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Vehicles make their way along a highway as fog covers most of Beijing on March. Thick fog and air pollution covered the city dropping to "hazardous" level in early March this year.
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Vehicles make their way along a highway as fog covers most of Beijing on March. Thick fog and air pollution covered the city dropping to "hazardous" level in early March this year.
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Visitors look out at the skyline clouded by pollution in Shanghai on May 15, 2012.
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Visitors look out at the skyline clouded by pollution in Shanghai on May 15, 2012.
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Girls wear face masks to protect against pollution in the streets of Beijing in December 2011.
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Girls wear face masks to protect against pollution in the streets of Beijing in December 2011.
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Vehicles making their way along a road on a smoggy day in Beijing on January 18, 2011.
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Vehicles making their way along a road on a smoggy day in Beijing on January 18, 2011.
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Chimneys of factories are seen in Guangzhou in November 16, 2010.
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Chimneys of factories are seen in Guangzhou in November 16, 2010.
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A man walks through heavy pollution on a street in Beijing on November 2011.
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A man walks through heavy pollution on a street in Beijing on November 2011.
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