Steel company Beijing Shougang Group has shut down a major blast furnace in part of China’s plans for cleaner air at the Olympics.

Beijing’s biggest steel company has shut down another of its blast furnaces as part of efforts to clean up the city before the Summer Olympics begin in August, Chinese state media said today.

The Beijing Shougang Group, one of the capital city’s major polluters, extinguished the fire in the number four blast furnace after 35 years in operation, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

I hate to rain on the cleaner-air parade, but I haven’t noticed any difference yet.

Via China Economic Review and Belfast Telegraph