Dutchman offers Smog Free Tower to clean Beijing air

Tokyo

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.