With barely a week prior to the opening of the Olympic games, Beijing announced today that thick smog that has shrouded the city for the past several months has finally cleared. Thanks in part to the strong winds that hit the city Monday.
Fresh footage from the games venue has indeed shown improved conditions, particularly areas around the Bird's Nest National Stadium. Flags around the stadium are now fully installed hoisted and flying, authorities have completed the erection of
custom street pole banners on the main thoroughfare that should greet visitors as they alight from their planes. The city is now teeming with life, with activities already lined once visitor's starts to flood in.
But it was not an overnight effort that transformed the city. First it had to shut down the operation of the giant steel mill responsible for the pollution of the city, then vehicles were required to stay put and only make limited runs, while the city government made effort to introduce greeneries - trees, plants, carpet grass on all landscaped areas. The different parks were rehabilitated and new one's were added to revive the once desolate place and make it into a garden metropolis.
Well, the efforts have paid so well because carbon dioxide emission had been drastically reduced, vegetation on the parks and playgrounds are now robust and healthy, man made ponds and waterways are now home to aquatic life. In fact the different plants have started to blossom, with flowers expected in time for the games.
If conditions at the games venue continue, then expect a successful staging of the summer spectacle.
Then what are we waiting for, lets start our trek to the games!
by:
The Flagman
