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		</div><p>Beijing and other cities across northern and central China were shrouded in thick smog on Monday, prompting authorities to delay dozens of flights and close highways.</p>
<p>The Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau extended an &#8220;orange alert&#8221; for heavy air pollution for three more days. Beijing&#8217;s smog had initially been forecast to lift by Monday.</p>
<p>The &#8220;orange alert&#8221; is the third level, preceding a &#8220;red alert&#8221;, in China&#8217;s four-tiered warning system.</p>
<p>On Sunday, 25 cities in China issued &#8220;red alerts&#8221; for smog, which triggers orders to close factories, schools and construction sites.</p>
<p>Air pollution readings in northern Chinese cities were many times above the World Health Organisation-designated safe level of 25 micrograms per cubic meter of PM 2.5, the tiny, toxic particles that damage lung tissue.</p>
<p>The readings exceeded 400 by Monday afternoon in several cities in the northern province of Hebei.</p>
<p>Expressways in Shijiazhuang, Hebei&#8217;s capital, and more than half a dozen other cities there were temporarily closed, according to notices posted on the official microblog of the province&#8217;s traffic police.</p>
<p>In the central city of Zhengzhou, authorities ordered students from kindergarten through high school to stay home on Tuesday because of the smog.</p>
<p>More than 300 flights out of the northern city of Tianjin were cancelled on Sunday due to poor visibility.</p>
<p>Authorities have deployed teams of inspectors to check on polluting factories, reports said.</p>
<p>China has long faced some of the worst air pollution in the world, blamed on its reliance of coal for energy and factory production, as well as a surplus of older, less efficient cars on its roads.</p>
<p>Researchers at Germany&#8217;s Max Planck institute have estimated that smog has led to 1.4 million premature deaths per year in China, while the non-profit group Berkeley Earth in California has had a higher figure, 1.6 million.</p>
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