BEIJING: In the future, China will shut down a factory before it even pollutes -- or so it hopes, as it deploys big data in the fight against bad air.

In Beijing’s environmental bureau, a team of engineers tend to giant mainframe computers that keep a watchful eye on the city’s pollution.

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