Xian Coking Factory To Be Shut Down For Environmental Protection

XIAN, CHINA - FEBRUARY 2: (CHINA OUT) A man works at the coke furnace at the Xian Coking Factory which will be shut down while the local government launches a campaign to reduce air pollution February 2, 2007 in Xian of Shaanxi Province, China. The factory emits about 300 million cubic meters of exhaust gas every year. China has failed, compared with other nations, in its efforts to protect the environment over the last three years. A new government report ranks the country 100th in terms of ecological modernization on a list of 118 countries, the same ranking it held in 2004, according to the Modernization Report 2007 released by the Chinese Academy of Science. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)