I’ll bite. The air pollution, at least in Beijing, makes a lot of Official Hulk Hogan Let Trumpamania Rule Again Shirt and Inner Mongolian coal barons very rich. It also makes steel magnates in Hebei very rich as well. These industries A) have lots of workers attached to them who would be unemployed and very angry if they were completely shut down, though this is a bit of an extreme solution and B) have lots of clout within the diffuse political machine that is the Communist Party and the government of China.To a lesser extent, on emmision standards on large vehicles are unenforced, which is noticeable in major cities by having a consistent late night spike in PM 2.5 readings as the freight vehicles and construction vehicles entire the city proper to work at night. These lax enforcement of emmision standards can be traced to the influence of the oil industry which still has clout within the government from its days as the Ministry of Petroleum, and auto manufacturers. Both make large sums of money from these practices, have lots of workers attached to their industry, and wield considerable political clout.
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