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LIU Min, an expectant mother in Beijing, is worried about her baby's future. She gets anxious when she thinks of the youngest lung-cancer patient in China, who's only eight years old. Air pollution is definitely on the minds of Beijing citizens - and now it's driven an artist more than 700 miles (1,126 kilometres) away to take action.
Netherlands designer and architect Daan Roosegaarde has created a 23-feet-tall (seven metres), air-cleaning "Smog Free Tower" and he's ready to ship it to Beijing if he gets a green light from the mayor's office, with whom he says he's had five rounds of talks.
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