Despite the Occasional Airpocalypse, Beijing’s Air Is on a Path To Steady Improvement Mar 16, 2021 10:09 am | 1 comment | 410 reads Yes, we get it, we’ve had a horrendous couple of weeks here in the capital, capping yesterday’s disastrously bad pollution that had air monitors around the city just up and quitting in disgust. But things are getting better, I swear! Just take a look at the cold hard facts: Beijing now ranks a mere #241 on the list of world’s worst cities for air pollution. For a long time, we Beijingers have loved to lament our fate as one of the worst. But as time goes on that is becoming less and less of a calling card for the capital – according to the very latest World Air Quality Report by IQAir released this morning, there are 240 cities that have it worse than us.