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In order to fight against the haze in Beijing, ISB - International School of Beijing spent 5 millions USD to build 2 gaint tents in Shunyi District of Beijing for their students. Students breath filtered air inside.

Everyone loves pandas. French artist Paulo Grangeon loves them so much that he constructed this display of 1,600 paper-made pandas on an avenue in Taipei to raise people's awareness to protect the some 1,600 pandas that exist in the wild now.

Pan Shiyi, chairman of Soho China, uses a PM2.5 density monitor a Shanghai subway on Jan 9, 2014. Pan arrived in Shanghai on Thursday, and took a 15-minute ride on Subway Line 2 from Hongqiao Airport to Jing'ansi station. He said his tests showed the PM2.5 concentrations in the subway cabins is 50 micrograms per cubic meter on average, and that in subway platforms is around 80 micrograms per cubic meter. Guo Xiang, a member of the political consultative conference in Shanghai, at the invitation of Pan, visited the real estate tycoon's Beijing office on Wednesday to test an indoor PM2.5 filtration device designed by Pan's company, just weeks before Shanghai's political consultative conference, a sign of Pan's ambition to tap into the Shanghai market if the conference suggests benchmarks for indoor air quality.

According to a local official, the estimated economic loss is at 100 million yuan ($16.5 million). The fire has been extinguished at 13:30, according to China Daily.

No casualties have been reported and the cause of the fire is being investigated.

Local officials said the fire started from a little shop near the center of the old town. Police received the report at 1:27 am and 2,000 firefighters rushed to the rescue.