Across the capital, images of Xi beamed down from massive billboards and the streets were lined with high school students, some waving Chinese flags.
The vehemence and volatile nature of the protests in capital after capital — images of which were broadcast around the globe almost instantly via blogs, social media networks and cable news stations — were unmistakable.
Underlying all of Nanjing's policies was a concern for the capital's image and looks—offensive people were allowed to exist as long as they remained invisible.
For 20 years, local officials carefully measured this city's air pollution levels and equally carefully hid the results -- fearing that the truth might tarnish the capital's image or lead to social unrest.
Calgary also celebrates its history as a cattle-ranching capital, an image enhanced by the city's hosting of the annual Calgary Stampede, a 10-day rodeo-centred event.
Officials have been monitoring PM 2.5 for years on a "pilot" basis, and had planned to wait until 2016 to start publishing those readings.Ma Jun, of China's Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs reckons the public outcry goes a long way to explain why the authorities decided to act sooner, despite official concerns about the capital's image.
A relatively young Canadian city and the administrative and financial headquarters of the country's petroleum industry, Calgary also celebrates its history as a cattle-ranching capital, an image enhanced by the city's hosting of the annual Calgary Stampede, a 10-day rodeo-centred event.
Table 11 Exploring the complementarity result between energy and capital Open image in new window Notes: The table displays the degree of complementarity between capital and energy and the rate of observations that satisfy concavity as well as mean factor shares for different energy intensity subsets.
Throughout what has been a dolorous summer in the Haitian capital, the image of the Caribbean nation's new president has gazed out at passersby from billboards and murals affixed to walls that did not topple during the country's apocalyptic January 2010 earthquake.
On the streets of Senegal's capital, Dakar, images of Wade on campaign posters had their eyes scratched out.
A bank of 30 television screens in the prison agency in San Salvador, the capital, beams images from every penitentiary in the country in an effort to document trouble.
