FILE PHOTO: Citizens celebrate China's Lunar New Year with fire works on early morning of January 28, 2017, in Beijing, China. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo
BEIJING (Reuters) - Residents of China's capital awoke on Saturday to dense, choking smog after many set off a barrage of fireworks overnight to ring in the Lunar New Year, despite limits and public admonitions against such displays in the congested city.
The Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau said harmful particulate matter in the air had hit the second-highest level in five years by Saturday morning, the state-owned China News Service reported.
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