The air quality since we've arrived has been better than we expected. That is not to say it is good; we just imagined worse. The quality in the past two weeks has dropped dramatically and may have been a partial cause to Bri's bout with bronchitis. From people we've spoken to the air quality in Shanghai is far better than Beijing. Other people have told us that the air quality in Shanghai is far better than it was before the World Expo in 2010 because they shut down 1,500 factories and made them move away in preparation for the expo. (The expo is also the reason Shanghai has an awesome metro system, which is still the fastest growing metro system in the world)
Click this link to read an interesting article on China's monitoring of the air quality. I found it one day last week when the weather report said foggy but it sure looked smoggy to me.
Matt
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