Beijing always has a cloud over it, run with a mask (with filters) and pray, just saying

I have been in Beijing many times with clear blue sky. You just need a cool North West wind and the smog clears out overnight. Wind from any other direction and everything gets trapped in the valley penned in by the mountains.

i have been to chengdu for a week and never saw the sun.... it is disgusting over there. Better yet there is barely real food there anymore, most things coming from a factory fryer packaging these croquette things you dont know what you are eating. I had to eat only rice and beans for a week

The paper said there was a 30% no show for the race. I was going to watch the start until I opened the curtains. It was pretty bad but when I left today the pollution was around 100 PPM.