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During the May Day holiday, Feng Wei, who works for an advertising agency in Chengdu, Sichuan Province in southwest China, bought a new car. He regarded it not as a luxury but as a health necessity.

The Geely Icon model he bought comes with an intelligent air purification system, said to be N95 certified, meaning it can filter at least 95 percent of air-borne particles. Feng told People’s Daily with the new car he now feels more at ease when his child needs to go out since the car offers greater protection from pollution and infections.

Feng is among the nearly 1.7

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