{"id":363,"date":"2014-05-31T03:35:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T03:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/interplextransportation.com\/blog\/?p=363"},"modified":"2014-07-25T14:56:21","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T14:56:21","slug":"china-to-scrap-millions-of-cars-in-attempt-to-reduce-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/china-to-scrap-millions-of-cars-in-attempt-to-reduce-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"China to scrap millions of cars in attempt to reduce pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/MetalScrapYard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-364\" src=\"http:\/\/interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/MetalScrapYard-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"MetalScrapYard\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/MetalScrapYard-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/MetalScrapYard.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Chinese government is determined to tackle the air pollution problem in the country. In a bid to cut the emissions, China plans to take up to 6 million <a title=\"Transportation for Business or Leisure Travel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/fleet.php\" target=\"_blank\">vehicles<\/a> that don\u2019t meet required standards off the road by the end of the year. 7,8% of the cars in China don\u2019t meet the minimum national standards, according to the Ministry of Environmental Protection.<br \/>\nOnly in Beijing 330,000 cars are set to be withdrawn and the city\u2019s authorities have recently offered subsidies to drivers who voluntary have their cars scrapped.<br \/>\nMany provinces forbid cars that don\u2019t meet the standards from entering the cities. The authorities also limit the number of new car licenses as a way of reducing car use.<!--more--><br \/>\nA recent government report said that 30% of the air pollution in cities comes from exhaust fumes and 20% of the farmland is polluted.<br \/>\nAccording to the plan published by China\u2019s cabinet, reducing pollution has become a top priority for the country. China\u2019s leaders try to reverse damage done by decades of rapid economic development and after years of denying the problem existed. They introduce emergency measures: the coal consumption will be reduced and more green technologies will be introduced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese government is determined to tackle the air pollution problem in the country. In a bid to cut the emissions, China plans to take up to 6 million vehicles that don\u2019t meet required standards off the road by the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/china-to-scrap-millions-of-cars-in-attempt-to-reduce-pollution\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33,2],"tags":[59,34,50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}