Environmental Issues Affecting Chinese Public Health

As the exploration of the industrial development and increased speed of the urban sprawl in Beijing, many severe environmental issues attribute mainly to the anthropocentric activities have been come out of the scene. One of them is the air pollution. Air pollution has been regarded as the most severe environment issue in China since it has already threatened to physical health, especially for the respiratory tract and lung. “In January 2013, Beijing experienced historical heavy air pollution. In this particular month, very few days were observed with blue sky.” (Lijian Han et.al., 2015) According to the analysis of the driving factors, “the population grew fast, and energy consumption and the number of vehicles increased rapidly” (Ju Zhang et.al., 2010), these factors add together can make the air quality worse than any one of them separately can. Firstly, it has been an undoubted truth that more and more people originally lived in rural has been moved to core urban of Beijing since there are more opportunities in there. Therefore, the huge explosion of urban population with more energy release and more CO2 exhalation is seen as an inevitably primary factor causing the bad air quality. What’s more, as the population

Air pollution by definition, is the presence in or introduction into the air of a substance which has harmful or poisonous effects. Beijing is a major Chinese city that endures air pollution significantly. A study on the global burden of disease found that outdoor air pollution contributed to 1.2 million premature deaths in China each year (Chemical & Engineering News,2017). As China is the world's second largest economy behind the United States, it is most definitely under the influence of globalization. Globalization causes industrialization, a process that will inevitably create pollution.70% of air pollution in China is from the tailpipes of automobiles (Conserve Energy Future, 2017). Thus, the introduction of advanced transportation brought by globalization has adversely affected China's atmosphere.

Pollution in Beijing has exceeded the ‘Very unhealthy’ alert and is now rated unlivable. People in Beijing are advised to avoid going outside wherever possible. Good morning/afternoon everyone. I 'm here today to raise awareness about air pollution in Beijing, the capital city of china.

The largest cities in China are over populated and polluted due to globalization. Peoples health is poor because of the air pollution from all the factories. People die quicker and not many babies are born to replenish the population. Most people around in the cities can be seen wearing masks.

In the past decade, the severe air pollution problem in fast developing countries, particularly in China, has caused highly social and scientific attention. In 2014, 92 % of the world population are exposed over to the WHO Air Quality Guidelines (AQG) PM2.5 concentration level of 10 μg/m3 (World Health Organization, 2016). Ambient particulate matter (PM) pollution ranked as the third leading risk factor in India and Nepal, and ranked as the fifth in China (GBD 2015 Risk Factors Collaborators, 2016). In 2012, about 3 million deaths globally were attributed solely to ambient air pollution, and around 87% of it occurred in low- and middle-income countries (World Health Organization, 2016).

Last year, china had an environmental crisis due to rapid growth of industrialization. This had become a serious threat to China as they had to use roughly 9% of its gross national income. The air

The population growth in Beijing contributes to a big portion of its pollution. The population has risen from 11 million to 16 million in just 7 years, and has nearly doubled over the past century. Factories that utilize coal burning contribute to the smog currently present in Beijing. Many of these factories depend on outdated and inefficient technology which emits air pollutants. Beijing is a victim of its own topography since it's surrounded by mountains which traps pollution within the city. Air quality worsens in the spring and summer seasons when the humidity and temperature levels increase. Air pollution has been so drastic to the point that the city often engulfs in smog making it near zero visibility which in turn causing road

One of China’s best successes has in turn been one of its biggest downfalls. One of the main problems is China’s greatest success which has been its phenomenal economic growth. This is one of the main drivers of the current environmental problems that the country faces. Factories dump pollutants into the air and water. It is difficult to see the Chinese government making the significant sacrifices required to improve their environment if it means slowing down their economic growth.

From Katrina, Sandy, Harvey and most recently Hurricane Maria we have sustained damage and destruction never seen before. Recently on the news it showed New Delhi, a city in India, where the smog was so bad people couldn’t go outside without a breathing mask. China, as well, has been dealing with air pollution for some time. For many years China has been the world’s largest contributor of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. This is primarily due to burning coal for energy. China is attempting to combat this issue with incentives for electric cars and stricter pollution

Air pollution is considered one of China’s main environmental threat. Some experts suggest it is due to the amount of manufacturing companies and vehicles. While others say it is the electrical plants which spew

In some of China's largest cities globalization has had drastic effects. It has lead to an increase of population, which as a result has led to higher levels of air pollution. Because there are so many people in china there is a lot of air pollution from transportation such as cars. Globalization also calls for increased production of goods which has lead to more factories being built, which also causes a significant amount of air pollution.

When people talk about the most polluted place in the world the first word that pops up in their head is China. China has had many problems with pollution, to the point where it is now effecting the populations health. Pollution in China has become so bad that 1.1 million people are estimated to have died because of it. The skies of China are no longer blue and are hovered by grey clouds of pollution. Even though China’s coal burning and heavy industry has brought many people out of poverty, it’s at the cost of their health. This leaves many people poisoned water making it undrinkable and food that is not edible.

China, one of the worlds largest industrial powers, is now facing a difficult situation. China’s industries rely largely on coal power which emits harmful gases, causing intense air pollution. The Chinese government, in fear that the country would fall in a recession, has not done much to stop these industries, so China has become the second largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world. The types of pollution created by this include air pollution and water pollution, both of which are harmful to people and wildlife. China’s problem has become the world’s problem. Nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides disgorged by coal-fired power plants fall as acid rain on Seoul and Tokyo, and much of the particulate pollution in Los

“Air pollution is defined as any substances absorb into atmosphere, and these substances harm the living things and environment” (Dictionary). As dictionary mentioned, during development of the Beijing for 10 years, air has been contaminated by emission of gases and smog from industrial factories whose number has been increasing. A number of particles and dusts damage to people’s health and their life style. People are always concerning about daily concentration of particles. Even though they struggle with defend their health against air pollution, polluted particles would give residences in Beijing fatal effect for people’s health. In Real-time Air Quality Index (AQI), we can compare Beijing to another countries using numerical data. This city is one of the most polluted city in the world. According to the article, “China 's massive pollution problem”, The Week, Wagstaff states that the air in Beijing is too dense with particles to watch the forest fire”(Wagstaff).

China is one of the countries with the poorest air quality. Moreover, Eastern China has an average air quality index (AQI) of 180, and some locations like Jiangbei, Songyuan have an AQI rating of over 500 (World Air Quality, 2017). Typically, on the AQI, a rating of above 150 is unhealthy, where individuals may experience mild to serious health effects from poor air quality (World Air Quality, 2017). Additionally, an AQI of above 200 is considered hazardous, which leads to the entire population experiencing sever health effects (World Air Quality, 2017). In fact, China’s poor air quality directly causes 1.6 million deaths a year, which equates to 4000 deaths per day (Ramsey, 2015).