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China's new premier vows to tackle pollution
Keqiang wisely chose bottled water as his refreshment for the presser.
"Chinese premier, Li Keqiang, pledged on Sunday that his government would "show even greater resolve" in tackling China's festering pollution crisis, a source of increasing public fury.
Li's remarks at his debut press conference as premier were the highest-level public comments on the problem to date, though he gave few specifics about how the government planned to address the environmental effects of rapid economic growth.
Street-level anger over the air pollution that blanketed many northern cities this winter has spilled over into online appeals for Beijing to clean water supplies as well."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/18/china-new-premier-vow-tackle-pollution