<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;text-overflow:ellipsis"><h1 class="gmail-wsj-article-headline" style="margin:0px 0px 4px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:0px 0px;background-repeat:initial"><a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/beijings-plan-for-cleaner-heat-leaves-villagers-cold-1485340201" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"chronicle display",serif;line-height:1.2em;white-space:normal;background-color:initial"><font size="4">Beijing’s Plan for Cleaner Heat Leaves Villagers Cold</font></a></h1><b>China installs electric heaters for millions to cut coal use, but rural poor fret over rising bills</b></div><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;text-overflow:ellipsis"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;text-overflow:ellipsis"><span style="font-family:inherit">
WSJ.Com, behind paywall. GACC may claim credit. </span></div><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;text-overflow:ellipsis"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;text-overflow:ellipsis"><span style="font-family:inherit">Says, "</span><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"whitney ssm",sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;white-space:normal">One Chinese government pollution solution is to swap out coal stoves for electric heaters. But it can be an expensive switch for villagers used to cheap coal, so researchers at Tsinghua University are researching thriftier solutions." <br><br>And "</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"chronicle ssm",serif;font-size:16px;line-height:28px;white-space:normal;background-color:initial">Cities and towns as far as 100 miles from Beijing have promised to establish “no-coal zones.” In Dongzhi West village, officials recently installed an electric heating system in Gao Hongfei’s courtyard home, 40 miles north of downtown Beijing. The system heats water to send to radiators in Ms. Gao’s home.</span></div><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"chronicle ssm",serif;font-size:16px;line-height:28px;white-space:normal;margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;word-wrap:break-word;background-image:initial;background-color:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:0px 0px;background-repeat:initial">At first, Ms. Gao—fearful over pollution’s effect on her 12-year-old son—welcomed the heating system. Yet she kept her family’s coal-burning stove as a backup and declined a $115 offer to dismantle its “kang” bed—a centuries-old feature of rural homes, with a platform warmed underneath by the exhaust of a wood fire."</p><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"chronicle ssm",serif;font-size:16px;line-height:28px;white-space:normal;margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;word-wrap:break-word;background-image:initial;background-color:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:0px 0px;background-repeat:initial">Nikhil</p></div>
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