In this blog I want to take a look of air pollution in China，According to the World Bank in 2007, 16 of the world's 20 most polluted cities are in China. I just read a new by last week that an eight-year-old girl has become China's youngest lung cancer patient,with doctors blaming pollution as the direct cause of her illness.
In research of Green peace with Peking University school of public health cooperation, pm2.5 and the cost of public health has done a survey, in 2012, Beijing, Shanghai, guangzhou and xi 'an this four cities because of the sudden death of pm2.5 number more than 8500 people, the equivalent of one hundred million dollars.
For example, Parts of Harbin air quality monitoring station reported, PM2.5 concentrations exceeded 1000 micrograms per cubic meter. It was achieved safety standards stipulated by the world health organization 40 times.
Industrial pollution and Vehicle emissions are the main cause of air pollution. Now Chinese government start to increase pressure to local factories. More and more Chinese willing to give up driving to work instead of ride or walk. Research new energy already been one of the top goal for some energy-intensive factories.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/chinas-choice/2013/nov/07/china-air-pollution-eight-year-old-cancer
http://cn.nytimes.com/china/20131025/c25pollution/
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