China's Slowly Disappearing Steel Plants

With a crippling combination of excessive air pollution and industrial over-capacity, China is slowly beginning to move away from the steel mill.

The state government announced last year that it would reduce the country's iron and steel production by a third by 2017. Half of that reduction will take place in the industrial city of Tangshan, located in the northeastern province of Heibei. Many plants have already closed around the city, leading provincial government officials to finally demolish their remains as part of a plan they call "Operation Sunday."