"Clean Air in Xian" - Kate Kaup

All things are relative. I woke up this morning in Xian, looked out the window at a city covered in brown thick smog, took a deep breath and thought “aaahhh! It feels GREAT to be able to breathe in the air again!” It was a bit tough to breathe in Lhasa given the altitude, but at least the air was crisp and the sky blue. Here in Xian, there is a constant brown haze mixed with the dust of the large-scale construction projects in progress across the city.