How do your parents get to work? Do they drive? If they do, you might try to 1 them to walk to work.
On May 16,2006,Du Shaozhong, deputy Director(副局長)of the Beijing Environment protection Bureau(環(huán)境保護(hù)局), didn't drive to work. 2 , he walked six kilometers to his office.
"This is to show my 3 for 'No Car Day ' ,"he told reporters.
The ' No Car Day' campaign asks Beijing drivers to leave their cars at home one day each month and walk to work.It also calls on Beijingers 4 cars on June 5,which is World Environment Day.The slogan 5 the day is: "If we don't drive for one day, we can have one more day of blue sky."
So far, more than 200,000 drivers have spoken in support of the campaign.
"We cannot control weather, 6 we can control when we drive," said Wu Zhonghua, a car club chairman.
Beijing had 238 "blue sky" days last year.A "blue sky day" is a day with good air quality.In 2005, the number 7 233.
However, a recent report suggests that Beijing had just 51 "blue sky" days in the first quarter this year.Much of the dust(灰塵) 8 the desert.But cars 9 most of Beijing's air pollution.
Beijing has more than 2.6 million cars.They make 3,600 tons of 10 each day.In 2006, the city stopped running 4,000 old polluting buses and 30,000 taxis.But more than 1,000 new cars go on the road each day.
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