The Effects Of Pollution In China

“Beijing lie between longitudes 115°25′E and 117°30′E and between latitude 39°26′N and 41°03′N in North China. Specifically, Beijing is located at the eastern edge of the Eurasian continent and belongs to the Bohai sea rim economic circle, with small plain in the south and mountains in the west and north, covering an area of 16,807.8 km2. The city’s climate is a monsoon-influenced humid continental climate.” (Gengyuan Liu et.al., 2011). As the capital city with full of the long history and Chinese traditional culture and one of three economic-centered cities, which are Beijing, Shanghai, Hongkong respectively, in China Beijing has been regarded as one successful city that has

According to the EPA pollution recommendations, when a city reaches an air quality index (AQI) of over 400, all people should avoid going outdoors. Beijing’s highest AQI is 895. This impacts the daily lives of Beijing citizens immensely. Air pollution has been related to increased cases of cancer, heart disease, stroke and other respiratory illnesses. It is also associated with asthma in children.

Whilst strong positive trend in PM concentrations are generally attributed to anthropogenic emissions and natural biogenic emissions, it is also affected by the physical meteorology and climate (Guo et al., 2014; Kirtman, B. et al., 2013; Wang et al., 2014; Zhang et al., 2016). Climate in China is largely modulated by the East Asian Monsoon and climate teleconnections with the Niño-Southern Oscillation and the Arctic, therefore air quality in China is affected by the variations and change in these climate systems (Cheng et al., 2016; H. Wang et al., 2015; Zhu et al., 2012; Zou et al., 2017).

poverty can be clearly seen. Southern climate change forces farmers to migrate which directly contributes to the level of poverty and adds to the suffering of the poor. Traditionally, these individuals would at least be able to survive through farming and growing their own food but in urban areas these individuals will be unable to grow their own food.

Beijing, China has a coal mining history of nearly 800 and some odd years. This has been a major air pollutant and the main reason for it is because its economy has grown substantially in the last 30 years. Worldwide, there are twenty cities with the highest, worst air pollution, sixteen of those cities are within China alone. The main causes of Beijing’s air pollution can be pointed to several factors. Large economical growth, an increase in vehicles on the roads, growth in population, and manufacturing. China has also experienced major economic growth with a large rise in Gross Domestic Product. This increase can be connected with pollution. Vehicles are just one contributor to pollution which we will discuss later in this paper.

A Ghanaian and founder of Smart Youth Volunteers Foundation, Lailah Gifty Akita said “Laziness has made our cities unclean. If we begin to work and act appropriately, we will clean our cities of any dirt.” People’s self-centered personality had caused the pollution, and if people think more about the city and implicate to help then people can get rid of the pollution. So, as the city that suffers from one of the most serious pollutions, Beijing air quality is a getting worse every year because of the dearth of citizen support. Also, Beijing population is increasing and as people increase so do the number of cars. Unfortunately, the amount of trees shrinks, and the Beijing government cannot reduce the use of coal that is unnecessary. Consequently, Beijing suffers from air pollution as a result of high population density, commercial use of coal, and lack of citizen involvement.

Currently, there are many first world countries that have been experiencing with issues that are affecting our lives and China is one of them. These issues include water pollution, air pollution, lack of education, etc. Pollution is a huge problem around the world, not just China. It can cause many health diseases, such as cancer and global warming. China has been dealing with these problems since the 1900s, and as the population grows, the number of health issues increases as well. Most of these health issues come from water pollution and air pollution, though there might be others, these are the major causes. A majority of this pollution came from industrial factories and power plants, but many daily tools such as cars have an impact as well. Air pollution poses a major threat to the Chinese public health. The current method of energy production of power plants in China is coal, which is the largest source of carbon dioxide emissions in the world. 70% of the world's carbon emissions came from China. Because of this reason, the country has been encountering smog in different parts of the area, also known as

In the present day a majority of China’s major cities contain hazardous amounts of air smog, enough to cause shortness of breath, obstruction to a person’s airway, and just impede a citizen’s daily life. Pollution exists in these crammed megalopolises because the city is constantly on the move for fast tracking improvements and

China, home to more than 1.35 billion inhabitants, is the most populated country and largest developing nation in the world. China’s economy is thriving and continues to grow at a rapid pace, but that economic development comes with high costs as China is now biggest polluter in the entire world (“China Biodiversity Threat”). Additionally, China’s rapid industrial growth has increased greenhouse emissions, increased the need of foreign resources and produced environmental destruction. China has doubled the amount of coal-fired power stations being built from one a week to

A recent study found that an average 1.6 million people die every year in China because of the growing smog and manmade air pollution that clouds over the country. While global warming and reducing our carbon footprint has become an almost world wide effort, China has been one of the main countries associated with pollution especially air pollution or smog. A research team based out of California discovered that a majority of people in China are breathing unhealthy air because of the pollution mainly due to China's coal factories. The smog has also been related to diseases such as cancer which has killed tens of thousands of Chinese people. Even with the evidence and studies conducted, the Chinese

You can’t really understand the devastating effects that pollution has on us until you experience it for yourself. If pollution is not addressed it could cause consequences. If there is one thing that I would change in the world, it would be, getting rid of pollution.

The people of China enjoy the assets of a flourishing economy but they also are suffering from the price that is being paid on the environment and specifically air pollution in their country due to the cities and the housing of people and the materials that are being used

The gross domestic product system is flawed and has many criticisms as a realistic guide to a nation's well-being. It includes the cost of damage caused by pollution as a positive factor in its calculations while excluding the lost value of depleted natural resources and unpaid costs of environmental harm. “...during 1973-85 had higher pollution intensities of GDP than those with more inward-oriented trade policies,” states Michael T. Rock, 1996, in “Pollution Intensity of GDP and Trade Policy: Can the World Bank Be Wrong?”. Furthermore, in “As China Roars, Pollution Reaches Deadly Extremes,” by Joseph Kahn and Jim Yardley (2007) states, “ Environmental degradation is now so severe, with such stark domestic and international repercussions, that pollution poses not only a major long-term burden on the Chinese public....Environmental woes that might be considered catastrophic in some countries can seem commonplace in China: industrial cities where people rarely see the sun; children killed or sickened by lead poisoning or other types of local pollution.” These lines represent major issues about air pollution affecting the people and the environment. The pollution also affects biodiversity because it releases both sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides deposit in water, on vegetation, and on soils as “acid rain”. Thereby increasing their acidity affects the ability of ecosystems to provide “ecosystem services”, such

China’s massive population has lead to such high levels of water use that traditional sources of water have started to run dry and threaten the water supplies of farming communities of the north. New plans have been made to introduce a desalination plant into the area. This plant could generate up to one million tons of fresh water each day (Wong, 2014). Such an increase in water supply would greatly reduce the need for water from rivers used for irrigation of farmland. Water use in Beijing is at such high levels that current municipal sources are almost at capacity (Jinran, 2014). This further strains the local rivers and reduces the efficiency and production of farms. The water

In the last two decades, the air pollution in China has increased substantially. The lack of good air quality is especially prominent in the more urban, industrialized areas of China. Environment Minister Zhou Shengxian warned, “If China meant to quadruple the size of its economy over 20 years without more damage, it would have to become more efficient in resource use. Otherwise, there would be a painful price to pay” (BBC News). The topic of air pollution is not a new concern to the world; however, the effects of air pollution, especially to the hundred of thousands of people directly or indirectly harmed by the side effects of “bad air,” should be of grave concern. According to the Ministry of Health, air pollution has made cancer the