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11 photos that show just how bad China's recent high pollution days have been

Lydia RamseyDec 2, 2015, 03:15 IST

A man in the Hebei province, which is next to Beijing, flies a kite on November 30.Damir Sagolj/Reuters

As the Paris climate talks get underway, one of the cities with the most notorious air pollution problems is experiencing its worst smog of the year.

China's air quality is so bad, scientists estimate the health problems associated with it claim 1.6 million lives a year, or about 4,000 a day.

Here's what the air looked like on November 30 and December 1, the first two days of the climate talks.