Beijing announces traffic 'congestion charge' system  

北京今年研究制定拥堵费政策 最快2015年征收

昨日，记者从北京市环保局官网获悉，环保局近日印发了《全市2014年流动污染源监管工作细则》，其中提出，2014年将联合市相关部门开展政策标准研究，研究制定低排放区和交通拥堵费政策、燃油排污费和阶梯油价政策等。另外，将启动第六阶段车用燃油地方标准的制定工作。[查看全文]

(ECNS) -- Beijing's environmental protection bureau will join hands with other municipal departments to develop a "congestion charge" system in 2014, in an effort to ease traffic jams and cut air pollution, the Beijing News reported on Thursday.

The charge system will be developed by the end of 2014, and will be implemented by 2015 at the earliest.

The information was included in a document called "Detailed rules on controlling mobile source pollution" released by the Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau.

According to the document, a total of 200,000 old vehicles will be phased out of the city, and the capital will upgrade more than 700 electric buses and 1,950 fueled by natural gas by 2014.