Beijing reportedly has slipped out of a list of China’s 10 most liveable cities, although it is spending billions of dollars sprucing up for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.
Beijing fell from third place in 2004 to 15th place in 2005 because of increasingly bad traffic, rising housing prices and heavy pollution, reports the China Daily.
The survey was conducted by Beijing-based pollsters Horizon Group and measured the “urban habitable index”, taking into account issues such as traffic, environment, social welfare and security.
