Capital Said to Plan Moving Gov't Agencies to Outskirts

(Beijing) – The capital's government plans to move the bulk of its agencies from busy downtown areas to a less developed part of eastern Beijing in a bid to ease pollution and traffic problems, an urban planner says.

Huang Yan, director of the Beijing Municipal Commission of Urban Planning, told state media on July 14 that the move would also encourage people to move to the Tongzhou District from the more crowded Dongcheng, Xicheng and Chaoyang districts.