APEC blue
Impacts
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The employees of controlled factories might lose money because they were forced to take a "vacation" in normal workdays. "With orders and production halted, we’re losing money," Liu Zhenyu, a steel mill worker in Tangshan, said.
Some employees seized the opportunity to go traveling, "The number of calls we received inquiring about short\-distance overseas trips went up by 50 percent," according to the Beijing Mytour International Travel Service. Additionally, "domestic travel is also in high demand".

As in the northern part of China, Beijing and its surrounding area are freezing cold at night. "The local government turned the state heating network off during unseasonably cold weather, which made the residents enduring a cold few days. "

In order to perform the controls, the economic costs are massive, and all the more significant given recent forecasts of a slowdown for China’s economy.
Manufacturing [Purchasing Managers Index](/wiki/Purchasing_Managers_Index "Purchasing Managers Index") (PMI) \& Employment: Figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics and the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing reflected excess capacity and weak demand. It also showed an unfavorable situation in the labor market. (The manufacturing PMI slipped to 50\.3 from 50\.8 in October, and the employment component eased 0\.2 point in November.)
Industrial Production: As Credit Suisse estimated, an approximated one\-quarter of China’s steel has been affected, 13% of its cement and 3% of its industrial output.[\[20]](https://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/11/12/apec-blue-has-chinese-factories-bleeding-red-economists-say/)

It will also bring with heavy pollution, as the heating system springs into life, regular volumes of traffic return to the roads, and local industry seeks to make up for losses.

Although "APEC blue" lasted for a very short time, it is really a part of accomplishment made by the government, which reflected China’s high attention paid to the issue and the great efforts made to solve it. *China Daily* reported that APEC blue was listed as one of the top 10 ecological accomplishments of 2014\.


What are some potential long-term effects of APEC blue on China's economy?