“Pollution is responsible for serious chronic disease and premature death on a daily basis,” said Anthony Hedley, professor of community health at the University of Hong Kong.
He is less worried about departing expats than the children who grow up here.
Hong Kong’s air quality objectives are 20 years old and less stringent than World Health Organisation guidelines set in 2006.
The government has commissioned its own review of objectives – but it has been accused of procrastination.
“It seems they want to postpone raising the objectives because of fear about Hong Kong’s public image,” said Bill Barron, an environmental economist at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

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