Blue skies in China’s capital spark joy, scepticism

This picture taken on January 11, 2018 shows Zou Yi looking out of a window in his house in Beijing. The sky has been a refreshingly brilliant blue suggesting the city may finally be making progress against air pollution. -AFP

BEIJING: Every day for the last five years, Zou Yi has photographed Beijing’s smog-cloaked skyline from his 13th-floor apartment, but there is something different in the air this year.

This winter, save a few grey days, the sky has been a brilliant blue, suggesting the city may finally be making progress against air pollution -- an issue so dire in previous years that some periods were dubbed an “airpocalypse”.