people don't cause pollution, the things they burn do. dirty coal, old crops, crappy trucks with no exhausts, chemical plants, etc etc

myself, i try to limit my consumption of electricity。for instance, i do not use elevators

Spring city doesnt really matter here, but its the brand thing, thingy. Inside this same brand is the marketing of fresh air on Hainan Island, and in Yunnan. This market started about 1.5 years ago, when beijingers got pretty desperate with breathing, or at least, it was manufactured this way.

Theres another thing here too. We, who can read Chinese, thats incl. reading the local news, have pretty damn more broad perspective around, than those who pick up their news at the bardisk, this website or their birds.

I see your looking for a fight, but leave my birds out of it.

local news is a reliable source? certainley give you a diferent perspecitive

I recommend anyone suffering from depression to watch CCTV.

and if you really need a heart warming chuckle watch local news on k6 which is chanel 23 on cable and see all the local shenanigans altogh sadley they no longer do the seagul report

Replacement of coal gas (term? meiqi in Chinese) by natural gas from cross-Myanmar pipeline should mediate air quality, as it is cleaner and it seems one needs to burn less of it for same amount of heat. This replacement going on now and will, I think, be carried out all over Kunming, by government requirement - my flat, and most of the large xiaoqu I live in, was converted today and/or will be in the next few days. Exhaust pipe for water heater had to be replaced, as the coal gas had corroded a hole in it, and in replacing pipe a lot of what looked like coal dust poured out of it. Plan seems to be to make replacements in more or less west-east direction. Increasing use of solar water heaters should help too.
However, I don't know what the natural gas plant or whatever in Anning may do to Kunming air - not particulate matter, but smell? Nor how the pipeline though Myanmar will affect folks there.

Did you have to change your gas stove for the conversion?

Yes, had to change gas stove and gas water heater - landlord responsible for taking care of and paying for this. But the thing apparently must be done by area - you can't just decide to hook up with the natural gas individually, as the network of pipes etc. becomes available by area (or anyway by xiaoqu, if you live in one). Guys dressed in red work uniforms came through the whole xiaoqu in 2 days, visited every flat to check final readings on gas meters (which didn't have to be changed - same one now reads natural gas use). Natural gas costs more per cubic meter, but I'm told less is necessary for same amount of heat.