Lin Laam Wan
During the Two Sessions period this year, the haze weather in Beijing aroused people’s concern, due to the media emphasis on the haze weather in their reportages on the Two Sessions Conference.
However, those reportages may exaggerate the seriousness and harmful impact of the haze weather. In the first week of the Two Sessions Conference, only one day we suffered from haze, and actually it was not that serious as most of us did not feel uncomfortable.
We put on a surgical mask to prevent dust, but Beijing citizens seemed accustomed to haze already.
What really affected our work was the difficulty of getting a taxi. When assigned to do reporting in a venue far from the city centre, we inclined to get a taxi to go there, but every time we needed to spend 30-45 minutes to get it.
