Chinese capital Beijing has prompted authorities to increase the level of health warnings and order the temporary shut down of more than 100 factories under severe foggy days ahead.

City Authorities urged its 20 million people to stay indoors and shut windows, eat a “balanced diet” and drink plenty of water. A third of all government vehicles have also been ordered off the road.

As media reports the US embassy in Beijing recorded the pollution in the city was 45 times above the recommended safety levels. Nation pollution problems are blamed on rapid urbanisation and dramatic economic development.without any environment effect in wild weather conditions.

The director of Beijing’s children’s hospital said earlier this week that the “continuous smoggy weather has significantly increased the number of child patients”.

China has a four-tier warning system for severe weather, with red being the most serious, followed by orange, yellow and blue.

Despite government efforts to fight pollution, frequent outbreaks of smog have become increasingly common in the winter season in north China, where cold weather conditions and increasing burning of the dirty coal for heating combined to exacerbate the situation.

Parts of Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Hunan and Jiangxi will be covered by smog from Sunday to Monday, with some regions seeing heavy pollution, the National Meteorological Center said in an online statement.Beijing,

Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong, Pearl River Delta and Yangtze River Delta regions, and the 10 cities with the worst air quality should realize negative growth in coal consumption, according to the plan.as per chinese media reports.

Excessive pollution levels have prompted the Beijing government to roll out a series of temporary emergency measures, such as shutting down 103 heavily polluting factories and taking 30 per cent of government vehicles off roads.

Thick smog has blanketed many Chinese cities in recent weeks and vehicle emissions are among the major contributors to the pollution.A new standard will be issued for petrol that caps sulphur content within 10 parts per million (ppm) before the end of the year, with a grace period extending to the end of 2017.Xinhua made the announcement after an executive meeting of the State Council that was chaired by Premier Wen Jiabao.

Beijing is so far the only city in China to have adopted such a standard, equal to Europe’s Euro V, it said in a report.Despite those steps, the capital’s air has remained hazardous on many days.

Concentrations of airborne pollutants in a major northern Chinese city exceeded a World Health Organization (WHO) guideline by 100 times on Monday as north China battled with poor air quality for the third straight day. In Shijiazhuang, capital of northern Hebei province, levels of PM 2.5, fine particulate matter, soared to 1,000 micrograms per cubic meter, Xinhua reported on Monday. That compares with a WHO guideline of an annual average of no more than 10 micrograms. In nearby Tianjin city, authorities grounded dozens of flights for the second day and closed all highways after severe smog blanketed the port city, one of more than 40 in China’s northeast to issue pollution warnings. Media agencies