How they see it: China's smog

1.China Daily 

We should not forget our long-term role in improving the air quality and protecting the fragile environment. Vice-Premier Li Keqiang remarked last Tuesday that China's air pollution treatment would be a long process that needed everyone's participation. As the first top Party official to address air pollution after the horrible hazy weather across China, Li said the country should change its mode of economic growth. Vowing to strengthen the enforcement of environmental protection laws, he also called on people to raise their awareness [and] refrain from depletive consumption. … Individuals … should try to cultivate stronger environmental awareness and choose green transport. (Beijing)

2. The Washington Post

Add air pollution to the list of challenges that China's new leadership must address to satisfy its increasingly restless citizenry. Over the weekend, Beijing and more than 30 other cities were enveloped by a thick haze. [Levels of] hazardous particles spiked to unprecedented levels - and so did complaints on the country's social media. The government's principal propaganda organs essentially surrendered to public sentiment, breaking their silence and … calling the pollution "choking, dirty and poisonous." … China's outgoing cohort of leaders, led by Hu Jintao , responded to the discontent by trying to suppress it. But it's becoming clear that that strategy will not work for their successors. (Washington)