(Ecns.cn) – The Beijing Environment Protection and Monitoring Center (BEPMC) is now open to individual tours. According to the Beijing Morning Post, public access was approved in order to clear up any doubts about BEPMC's monitoring of the city's air quality.
Members of the public are allowed inside the center to witness the process from data collection to release stages. Any resident is welcome to make a telephone appointment, get a number and wait for official notification of an available tour date and time.
Operators announced two batches of visitors will be taken on tours every day between 2pm and 4pm. Each group will consist of 20 to 30 applicants, and each tour will last about 40 minutes.
The tour has no restrictions on individual applicants, and the monitoring center has no secret to hide, asserts Wang Xiaoming, a BMEPB official. He added that tours will be manned by the operation's technicians who will act as guides and answer visitors' questions.
The exhibition hall of the monitoring center was opened to group tours in June 2007 and has received about 300 visitors to date, but Web users have complained about the lack of opportunities to get a basic understanding of the work performed here.
Now individuals can dial 010-68413195 directly, and wait and get in line for this interesting and thorough exploration of Beijing's environmental protection and monitoring center.
