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Various of Beijing skyline in pollutionDecember 2 20112. Top shot of Wang Qiuxia giving instructions to engineer Tan Liang on how to use air quality monitoring device3. Close of device 4. Wang showing Tan how to use air...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eDecember 6 2011\u003cbr/\u003e1. Various of Beijing skyline in pollution\u003cbr/\u003eDecember 2 2011\u003cbr/\u003e2. Top shot of Wang Qiuxia giving instructions to engineer Tan Liang on how to use air quality monitoring device\u003cbr/\u003e3. Close of device \u003cbr/\u003e4. Wang showing Tan how to use air quality monitoring machine\u003cbr/\u003e5 Close of computer screen with official data on air quality \u003cbr/\u003e6. Wang at computer \u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Wang Qiuxia, Green Beagle Chinese environment group:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We wish the environment authorities could handle the information in a more honest way, we wish they could present us the real data which reflects the true situation of air quality. This cannot be treated as another political issue, the air quality standards should not be set according to a quota of 'good air quality days' that the (authorities) want to attain.\"\u003cbr/\u003eDecember 3 2011\u003cbr/\u003e8. Tracking shot of Tan walking to test the air in his neighbourhood \u003cbr/\u003e9. Close of Tan looking at air quality monitoring device\u003cbr/\u003e10. Close of air quality monitoring device \u003cbr/\u003e11. Wide of Tan using device\u003cbr/\u003eDecember 8 2011\u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide of Deborah Seligsohn, Principal Advisor at China Climate and Energy Programme of the World Resources Institute (US)\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE (English) Deborah Seligsohn, Principal Advisor at China Climate and Energy Programme of the World Resources Institute (US): \u003cbr/\u003e\"Air pollution has been a major problem in Beijing for decades and decades. If you look back to the pollution levels in the 60s, they were horrendous, I remember when I first came here in the mid 80s they were awful, so air pollution has always been bad. There is no question that people are far less willing to put up with it today than they were 20 years ago. It is one of those things whereas people get wealthier they start to say 'wait a minute, having a job is not enough, I also want a comfortable way of life, and everything else'.\"\u003cbr/\u003eDecember 3 2011\u003cbr/\u003e14. Wide of Tan Liang walking to test the air in his neighbourhood \u003cbr/\u003e15. Mid of chimney of garbage incinerator near Tan Liang's home \u003cbr/\u003e16. Tan Liang testing the air quality \u003cbr/\u003e17. Close of device\u003cbr/\u003e18. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Tan Liang, Engineer:\u003cbr/\u003e\"With citizens' participation we can gain a true and more comprehensive grasp of the situation. If we then give the authorities the data obtained, then we are also helping them to understand the situation better. This can prevent inaccuracy of the information, as well as prevent people's health from being harmed further.\"\u003cbr/\u003e19. Tan walking\u003cbr/\u003eArmed with a device that looks like an old transistor radio, some Beijing residents are being trained by an environmental group to record pollution levels and post them online. \u003cbr/\u003eIt's an act that borders on subversion.\u003cbr/\u003eThe government keeps secret all data on the fine particles that shroud China's capital in a health-threatening smog most days. \u003cbr/\u003eBut as they grow more prosperous, Chinese are demanding the right to know what the government does not tell them: just how polluted their city is.\u003cbr/\u003e\"We wish they could present us the real data which reflects the true situation of air quality. This cannot be treated as another political issue,\" said Wang Qiuxia, a researcher for the Chinese environment group Green Beagle, who shows interested residents how to test pollution on a locally made monitoring machine.\u003cbr/\u003eBeijing is frequently cloaked in yellow haze and buildings a couple of blocks away are barely visible. \u003cbr/\u003eStill, Beijing's official air quality index records the pollution as \"light\", a reading at odds with what many people experience.\u003cbr/\u003eA reason for the discrepancy is that the official index does not include the fine particles Wang's group is tracking, PM2.5. \u003cbr/\u003eSometimes seen as soot or smoke, PM2.5 is tiny particulate matter, less than 2.5 micrometres in diameter or approximately 1/30th the average width of a human hair, that can result from the burning of fuels in vehicles, power plants and agriculture.\u003cbr/\u003eGovernment agencies did not comment for this report and experts say the government measures are reducing pollution. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Ministry of Environmental Protection has announced plans to factor PM2.5 into new air quality standards, beyond the coarser PM10 already measured, but not until 2016. \u003cbr/\u003eOne environmental official was quoted by state media as saying conditions were \"not ripe\" for the tougher standard as many places would fail.\u003cbr/\u003eDeborah Seligsohn, an adviser to the Washington-based World Resources Institute believes the pollution has been a problem in China for \"decades\", but what has changed is people's reaction to it.\u003cbr/\u003e\"There is no question that people are far less willing to put up with it today than they were 20 years ago. It is one of those things whereas people get wealthier they start to say 'wait a minute, having a job is not enough, I also want a comfortable way of life, and everything else',\" she said.\u003cbr/\u003eIn return for lending the PM2.5 detector, Green Beagle gets the readings and posts them on their website.\u003cbr/\u003eWhile posting pollution data on the Internet is not specifically illegal, challenging the government can be considered subversive in China where the government zealously guards data it considers sensitive. \u003cbr/\u003eIn the past, people have been jailed for leaking government economic data ahead of the release date.\u003cbr/\u003eTan Liang, a 32-year-old engineer and one of Green Beagle's volunteers, takes readings three times a day around his residential compound, newly built layers of apartment blocks on the outskirts of Beijing's central business district that are home to many young couples.\u003cbr/\u003eHe believes \"citizens' participation\" can help the government with gaining more accurate data.\u003cbr/\u003e\"This can prevent inaccuracy of the information, as well as prevent people's health from being harmed further,\" said Tan, who said he was motivated to take part because his wife is five months' pregnant and they live close to an incinerator. \u003cbr/\u003eGreen Beagle is encouraging citizens to club together with neighbours and others in their community to buy their own 30-thousand yuan (five-thousand US dollars) PM2.5  monitoring device.\u003cbr/\u003eThe battle over Beijing's air seemed to take off this autumn amid a run of smog-choked days. \u003cbr/\u003ePan Shiyi, a rich celebrity property developer who symbolises middle-class aspirations, took to China's version of Twitter to repost readings, including PM2.5, from the US Embassy in Beijing that measures air quality from a monitor on its roof and publishes them online every hour.\u003cbr/\u003eThe US Embassy air quality readings are often bleaker than the official 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