Pollution, be gone: 25,000 people cycle to a faraway park in Beijing to photograph clear skies

To what extent is Beijing actually polluted? You don’t need a nerd to figure it out, when more than 25,000 people cycled to Jingshan Park at the northern outskirt of Beijing on Friday morning only to capture images of clear skies. [caption id=“attachment_2296670” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  A clear view of the Jingshan Park in Beijing. Image from Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PeoplesDaily/posts/952308051487679[/caption] Due to the pollution trouble in Beijing, residents had to cycle to North of the capital, near the Forbidden city, to witness something they would never have been able to see while in the city. According to People’s Daily, China, the crowd of people traveled to park specially to capture the “long-missed azure skies”. Earlier in January, the mayor of China Wang Anshun had said that the city’s smog has made it “unliveable”, reported the Guardian. However, a new Greenpeace study has revealed that the pollution control in the city is increasing over the past 12 months. ““Our analysis shows that the government’s strict pollution control measures are working, at least enough to record a modest improvement on last year,” said Zhang Kai, Climate and Energy Campaigner at Greenpeace East Asia, in the study report. Meanwhile, Instagram was flooded with images of the clear, pristine park, while users described the view as, “gorgeous view of the Forbidden city.”