Environmental issues in China

EiNVIROMENTAL ISSUES IN CHINA

one of the most polluted countries Bianca Maiani 2I

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1. Air Pollution

3. Water Pollution

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2. Beijing

4.Video

AIR POLLUTION

First on the list of environmental issues in China is air pollution.China is the world's leading annual emitter of greenhouse gases and mercury.

Of the twenty cities throughout the world with the worst air quality, 16 of them are located in China

Causes-the rapid economic expansion the country more transports - increasing population - it's the main exporter of refined petroleum and petroleum gas

Consequences - cause an average of 1.2 million premature deaths every year - health

Much of China’s growth has been powered by coal, an highly polluting, source of energy.

Beijing

Beijing City, the capital of the People's Republic of China, is the political, cultural and international exchange center of the country. Bejing is the biggest source of air pollution in China.

Beijing

air pollution caused:- by vehicle emissions - the burning of coal to produce electricity. - the manufacturing industry - population growth.

Beijing’s industries also lead the world in emissions of mercury, a harmful neurotoxin.

Beijing

https://www.iqair.com/air-quality-map/china/beijing

China's fight to reduce air pollution

China has implemented several important policies to fight pollution: - The 2013 Airborne Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan recognized coal as a key driver of air pollution and placed caps on its consumption. - In November 2016 China released multiple sub-plans under the Thirteenth Five Year Plan framework. - In November 2020, the Central Committee of the Communist Party recommended strengthening the regulation of particulate matter and ozone in order to “essentially eliminate” heavy pollution during the period of the Fourteenth Five-Year Plan.

WATER POLLUTION

China is facing increasingly serious water scarcity and water pollution. China's water supply has been contaminated by the dumping of toxic human and industrial waste.Problems: -drinkable water contaminated human health - agricultural problems (irrigation with dirty water)

The photo below shows a child swimming in a polluted reservoir in Pingba, in the southwest province of Guizhou, and was taken on September 2, 2006.

This one here is of another child drinking from a stream in Fuyuan county, taken on March 20, 2009. As China's rapid modernization and infrastructure sprawl at a dizzying rate, the demand for water has skyrocketed.

It arouses disgust even just looking at it for a few seconds. A man walks by a sewage drain pipe into the Yangtze River in Anhui province. The photo dates to December 4, 2013.

Increased industrialization also generates pollution in the form of major accidents, such as large oil spills. As happened in the port of Dalian, in the Liaoning province in 2010. Here are the workers trying to clean up the waters.

Last year, 16,000 dead pigs were found. Their bodies floated on the Huangpu River near Shanghai in March 2013.

Then there is the sad sight dating back to July 11, 2007, when a worker cleans away dead fish in a lake in Wuhan, Hubei province.

Fight to reduce water pollution

The Thirteenth Five Year Plan in 2016 set specific goals for water consumption and water quality. The Plan - reduce water consumption by 23 per cent from 2015 levels by 2020 - to upgrade urban sewage facilities - to increase rates of wastewater treatment - it also demands reduced contamination from agricultural pollutants, by lowering the use of chemical fertilizers and insecticides

Sitography

https://chinapower.csis.org/air-quality/

https://ge.usembassy.gov/chinas-air-pollution-harms-its-citizens-and-the-world/

https://borgenproject.org/water-pollution-in-china/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1566519/

https://www.policyforum.net/tackling-chinas-water-pollution/

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