As Deadly PRC Smog Returns, Entrepreneur Sells Canned Air - "Pristine Tibet" Among Flavors
A Chinese entrepreneur is selling fresh air in soft drinks cans, similar to bottled drinking water, as north China is once again choking in toxic smog. The concentration of airborne PM 2.5 particulates — the smallest and most deadly — went off the chart in the early hours of this morning for the second time this month, according to pollution gauge at the American Embassy in Beijing.
The Air Quality Index, designed by the US Environmental Protection Agency, cannot cope with levels beyond 500, which is 20 times the World Health Organisation air quality standard. The embassy gauge had been hovering in the merely "hazardous" 300-500 range since Friday.
Chen Guangbiao, whose wealth is valued at $740 million according to the Hurun Report, sells his cans of air for five yuan each. It comes with atmospheric flavours including pristine Tibet, post-industrial Taiwan and revolutionary Yan'an, the Communist Party's early base area. Mr Chen told Fairfax Media he wanted to make a point that China's air was turning so bad that the idea of bottled fresh air is no longer fanciful.
"If we don't start caring for the environment then after 20 or 30 years our children and grandchildren might be wearing gas masks and carry oxygen tanks," said Mr Chen.
Choked ... The view from Fairfax's Chinese headquarters at 12.30pm AEST on January 29. Photo: Sanghee Liu
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...huh. 
Likely made that from polluting the air. Yet now he's worried, but still out to make a buck from what he helped create?
