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Can a bold new "eco-city" clear the air in China?

Clipped to the Drawing Board by jackson Browne

SHANGHAI -- To the residents of China's most crowded and populous city, the air on nearby Chongming Island has an unfamiliar quality : It's fresh.

About an hour's ferry ride from the edge of the city, the island's farms and fishing villages are a world apart from the pollution that pervades modern life in China -- and increasingly spills out beyond it.

A steady breeze rustles through lush green marsh grass, the only sound besides the chirping of migrating birds at the mouth of the Yangtze River. Fields of watermelon and cabbage stretch for miles.
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