Running in smoggy, unbreathable conditions, check. Posing for a photo at the site of an infamous massacre in Beijing, check. Uploading said photo onto a website that’s currently banned in China, check.
Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, is in China this weekend to meet global CEOs and presidents at the China Development Forum, a Facebook spokeswoman told Wall Street Journal. Already, he has made an impression on Chinese Internet users and those on Facebook.
“It’s great to be back in Beijing! I kicked off my visit with a run through Tiananmen Square, past the Forbidden City and over to the Temple of Heaven,” Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post on March 17. A photo of a beaming Zuckerberg in his trademark dark grey shirt, running with five others under a greyish, smog-covered Beijing sky, was attached to the post.
The U.S. Embassy in China, which tweets hourly updates of the air quality in Beijing, indicated that the level of carcinogenic PM2.5 particles was over 300, a “hazardous” level. The U.S. Embassy recommends that people “limit outdoor exertion” when pollution such levels of toxicity.
