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		</div><p>Chinese premier Li Keqiang has pledged to make the country&#8217;s skies blue again and &#8220;work faster&#8221; to address pollution caused by coal burning.</p>
<p>His words to delegates at the opening of the annual National People&#8217;s Congress highlight how public discontent has made reducing smog, the most visible of China&#8217;s environment problems, a priority for the leadership.</p>
<p>In a report to China&#8217;s ceremonial legislature, Mr Li said people are &#8220;desperately hoping for&#8221; faster progress to improve air quality.</p>
<p>&#8220;We will make our skies blue again,&#8221; he declared to almost 3,000 delegates in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.</p>
<p>He said the government intends over the next year to step up work to upgrade coal-fired power plants to achieve ultra-low emissions and energy conservation, and prioritise the integration of renewable energy sources into the grid.</p>
<p>Mr Li said: &#8220;All key sources of industrial pollution will be placed under round-the-clock online monitoring.&#8221;</p>
<p>Environmental groups welcome the disclosure of such data because it allows the public to directly supervise the emissions of plants in their areas.</p>
<p>Lauri Myllyvirta of Greenpeace said the group had expected the government to announce a speeding-up of measures because air pollution is supposed to hit targets this year that were laid down in 2013. </p>
<p>They include a 25% reduction in the density of fine particulate matter &#8211; a gauge of air pollution &#8211; in Beijing and the surrounding region from 2012 levels.</p>
<p>&#8220;It will require very dramatic steps to achieve those targets for this year,&#8221; Mr Myllyvirta said.<br />
He added that Greenpeace also hopes to see a measurable target for reducing wasted wind and solar power generation capacities, &#8220;because that&#8217;s when different parts of the government will be really held accountable for integrating wind and solar fully into the grid&#8221;.</p>
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