
Beijing -
China's largest online facemask seller was out of stock on Wednesday as consumers were eager to protect themselves from a full week of smog hanging over large parts of northern China.
Beijing officially read at two o'clock P. M.
On Wednesday morning, tiny air particles that easily penetrate the lungs and are associated with thousands of premature deaths reached 486 micrograms per cubic meter.
The safety ceiling recommended by the World Health Organization is 25.
Another measure of the US embassy in Beijing is two o'clock P. M.
The city level 5 reached 557.
In Xinji, a neighboring province of Hebei province, official Chinese statistics show the figure at 761.
The capital is the sixth day of the "orange" smoke alarm, the next day
The tenacity and visibility of the air tasting dropped to the highest scale of several hundred meters.
"Everyone is breathing the choking smoke and seeing the reverse
The boom in the sale of contaminated products and the difficulty of meeting the demand in the online facemask store.
The flagship store Tmall of 3 m Company provided by 29 masks US industrial equipment suppliers. A business-to-
Consumer shopping platforms, 26 sold out or unavailable on Wednesday.
The tototobobo Tmall store, which produces transparent and reusable masks in Singapore, issued a notice that the new shares will not be available until April 1.
Another seller, Vogmask, has only children's models left in the Tmall store.
"I'm looking for masks and air purifiers as the smog gets worse and worse.
Then I found that the mask was sold out and the price of the air purifier was also rising.
Are everyone panicking?
"One user complained on Sina Weibo that it had an early morning mom with the online handle Simao, which is equivalent to Twitter.
In recent years, cities across China have been severely polluted by air, most of which are caused by coal emissions.
Burning power station.
China's pollution problems are blamed on rapid urbanization, rapid economic growth, the use of cars and the increase in climate factors.
Pollution will deteriorate in winter.
Pollution is expected to continue until Thursday, the National Meteorological Center said.
In China, more than 300 of the pollution index is considered "dangerous" when everyone is advised to avoid outdoor activities ".