China’s Most Polluted Cities of 2013
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By the way that is a super long quote from u.
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Notice that both are yellow skinned.
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I noticed that so I deleted it. I wish members didn't do that. It is absolutely unnecessary.
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I think the air pollution from Hubei or Northern China is from the desert sand and dust, not so much about smoke pollution fron industries or vehicle or burning.
Can't say the same about Beijing though.
Can't say the same about Beijing though.
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It's the coal burning industry. Coal is cheap and plentiful in China. This coupled with the geography results in the smog not being able to be cleared.
Look at all the polluted cities, the majority are east of the Taihang mountains. Beijing itself is surrounded by mountains, so it becomes a trap for the pollution.
Look at all the polluted cities, the majority are east of the Taihang mountains. Beijing itself is surrounded by mountains, so it becomes a trap for the pollution.
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hi there
1. aiyoh!
2. entering chinaland is entering it at your own risk.
3. honest, I have seen and experienced such pollution.
4. currently, undertaking overseas assignments in that shit place.
1. aiyoh!
2. entering chinaland is entering it at your own risk.
3. honest, I have seen and experienced such pollution.
4. currently, undertaking overseas assignments in that shit place.
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so is it racist to start a thread like this?
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Give a fuck, i don't. (That's Yoda's line)
Especially not to u because it is perfectly alright for u and many others to bash malays, indians, whites while it is not to bash chinese. BTW i am chinese.
I have an axe to grind with the PAP IB and i am here to give them a run for their money.
PAP IB clones here like to bash white countries and it's allies and so i will bash Americas enemies.
Best of all is that there is nothing that those who disagree can do anything about it.
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China smog makes capital 'barely suitable' for life: report
(Reuters) - Severe pollution in Beijing has made the Chinese capital "barely suitable" for living, according to an official Chinese report, as the world's second-largest economy tries to reduce often hazardous levels of smog caused by decades of rapid growth.
Pollution is a rising concern for China's stability-obsessed leaders, keen to douse potential unrest as affluent city dwellers turn against a growth-at-all-costs economic model that has tainted much of the country's air, water and soil.
The report, by the Beijing-based Social Science Academic Press and the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, ranked the Chinese capital second worst out of 40 global cities for its environmental conditions, official media reported on Thursday.
China's smog has brought some Chinese cities to a near standstill, caused flight delays and forced schools to shut.
Beijing was hit by severe levels of pollution at least once every week, according to the 2012 Blue Paper for World Cities report. That was on top of a significant level of air pollution covering the capital for 189 days in 2013, according to city's Environmental Protection Bureau.
Though China's record on pollution is patchy, the government said on Wednesday it would set up a 10 billion yuan ($1.65 billion) fund to fight air pollution, offering rewards for companies that clean up operations.
Overall the government has pledged to spend over 3 trillion yuan ($494.85 billion) to tackle the problem, creating a growing market for companies that can help boost energy efficiency and lower emissions.
Beijing will also shut 300 polluting factories this year and publish a list of industrial projects to be halted or suspended by the end of April, state news agency Xinhua said. ($1 = 6.0624 Chinese yuan)
(This version of the story corrects first paragraph to show China world's second-largest economy.)
(Reporting by Adam Jourdan; Editing by Michael Perry)
