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Fog and pollution shrouded northern China, forcing international golf and tennis players to play in dangerous smog, causing millions of Chinese to return home from long holidays, flight cancellations and road closures.
In Beijing's biggest sports weekend so far this year, spectators at the Chinese open and the first women's golf championships pulled their shirts from their faces and tried to avoid harmful air with masks and handkerchiefs.
"In terms of pollution, this is not ideal," ranked first in the world.
After overcoming the smog, male tennis player dejoko said Nadal won his fourth China Open.
"Yes, we 've been talking about weather conditions, but that's the case, and it's the same thing that I 've been back here in the last few years, Serbian told reporters in the post
Press conference of the competition
On the first lady Professional Golf Association event Reignwood LPGA Classic in China, the kick-off time was delayed to allow some smoke to dissipate, but some players, including Sandra Gaal in Germany, still wore masks
In some parts of Beijing, visibility dropped to less than 500 on Saturday night and Sunday morning, according to the National Meteorological Center.
The report said the smog in a large area of northern China will continue until Monday afternoon, including Hebei province and the port city of Tianjin, adjacent to Beijing.
The depressing smog in the capital has triggered a high pollution alert from the US embassy, which monitors air quality.
In an email to U. S. citizens, the company said its air quality index averaged more than 300 within 24 hours from Friday night and more than 400 on Saturday night.
More than 301 of everything in the US Environmental Protection Agency is considered harmful to health.
People are advised to stay indoors and run the air purifier continuously.
Smog is one of the peak tourist periods in China --the October 1-
Golden Week is called "Golden Week", where hundreds of millions of Chinese travel.
In any case, the holiday is characterized by long traffic and travel delays, and the partial closure of the six international airports further complicated on Sunday, according to state media reports
Including a provincial road connecting Beijing and Shanghai.
Nearly 30 highways have also been restricted around Beijing. Tianjin-Hebei area.
Beijing's Capital International Airport said four international flights, including Mongolia and Russia, were canceled on Sunday morning and three other flights were delayed.
Two domestic flights were canceled and 20 classes were delayed.
The airport said on its lunch-time microblog that the flight is gradually returning to normal, with visibility exceeding 800 and is expected to increase further to 1,000.
1,500 on Sunday afternoon.