Last week, I was stuck in a traffic jam in Zhongguancun, the high-technology zone in northwest Beijing that's supposed to be China's Silicon Valley. But right then, it looked more like the 405 on a very bad day. The air was hot, thick and dark gray with smog. Six lanes of cars, trucks and buses were at a near-standstill in both directions. The driver predicted — accurately— that the nine-mile drive to downtown would take an hour. I found myself thinking: This is the new, green China I've been reading about?
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