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China's Serious Pollution Problem

20 years ago

China's Serious Environment Problem


Are you going to China? Then I will tell you pollution in China is very serious. The Chinese and government official's environmental protection consciousness is very low. The Chinese industry economy increases quickly; pollution grows more serious more; and the great majority of Chinese are insensitive to the pollution. This is a Chinese, as well as, global disaster in the making. I request you help China.

Car and motorcycle traffic is increasing greatly. The population in China is multitudinous"1300000000".is five times as the population of the US. China is short of cultivated land. in spite of this case,The Chinese government is developing the private car industry greatly, new highway construction will take up large areas of land. Traffic accidents increased greatly. In 2003 200,000 people died in traffic accidents in China.

Building development is in mass confusion. Building technique is primitive and building in consuming large amounts of materials. In 2003 China poured 44% of the world's cement. Building a house will consume more amounts of cement brick and decorative colorful brick in China than The Western Nation. But these houses make little use of insulation letting heat flow out in the winter and letting the heat in during the hot summer months. House repairs are more difficult, too.chinese concerns beauty of own house very much,but chinese don't concern about environment round the house.they spend large money on their own house,but they are stingy in cost of the environment around their house.

Garbage removal is primitive.chinese don't know Garbage classification.waste plastic bags is visible everywhere. The Chinese people like to use plastic bags and batteries just once and then throw them away.china government pay great attention to beauty of city.they afford large money in images structure of city.but they pay little attention to garbage classification.large amounts of garbage is made by large consumption.

River is polluted by chemical fertilizer,pesticide,herbicides,chemical synthetic detergent(washing powders),industry waste water,human excrement and urine,garbage.waste water excrement and urine flow directly into river without any sanitation practices.the most river in china is unsuitable for drinking.many china people is harmed by drinking water in polluted river.

Education in protecting environment is blank. People's understanding and concept of protecting the environment is quite low. China's people are poor, but they are not frugal.Chinese are concerned the beauty of house but don't concerned the beauty of environment,Chinese are concerned about their own health but don't care about environmental health. They like to inject and swallow more medicines,eat more wild animals, but they don't realize that the polluted food, water and air is threatening their health greatly.

China is imitating the West's high pattern of consumerism. Chinese hope per a people owning private car and Motorcycle,living big and big house. Consuming large power source as Western nations do. The Chinese government is making effort to realize this aim. China is producing large cars and motorcycles, large cement and brick.Exploiting large coal mines and oil field, large ore mines. Building large multi-story buildings and huge highway construction patterns. Enlarging blindly more and more area of cities and towns land. Large areas of land are damaged by the exploitation of natural resources.

The population in China is multitudinous, 1.3 billion(perhaps 1.4or1.5 billion)people, five times the population of the US. China is short of cultivated land. The actual situation demands that China doesn't imitate the West's high consumption. China should develop electronic information consumption. Should develop economizing energy industries. If not, the Chinese would ruin their own environment,in further more, affect the global environment.

The Chinese don't realize that pollution is their most dangerous enemy.

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name:chenyu.

ADDRESS:people hospital.huangchuan County.henan Province.china. code:465150

Email:chenyu0397@yahoo.com.cn yecao1959@sohu.com

telephone:008613598583618

home telephone:008603973923000

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I like green.like science.like internet.like to live in a small house around plants trees.oppose high consumption.

Comments (4)

  • 20 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    "In 2003 200,000 people died in traffic accidents in China."

    That's pretty high for a nation with far ferwer autos than the US. I believe that about 40-50,000 die annually in US from auto accidents.
    Sorry for your nation's growing pollution problem. History taught US that it has to get worse and the leaders start to choke before something is done about it. Public outcry helps but you may not have that option over there.
    Good luck!

  • 20 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Chenyu, thank you for posting and giving us an insider's view about China. There is alot of interest on this forum about China's rapid economic development and many of us agree with you and are concerned about the US Model of wasteful consumption and high fossil fuel use. Are there many people in China who feel as you do about the need for more careful management of economic development in China? Is there any organized environmental movement in China and any means of voicing concerns about the need for sustainable development and environmental protections?

  • 20 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Welcome Chenyu and thank you for sharing your concerns about energy matters and environmental issues. As the other posters have already written, we in North America are very interested in economic and social developments in China. Your country will soon achieve world economic dominance, perhaps; and with that leading position, other nations and peoples will look to China for leadership.

    If China attempts to model itself after the US, we in the rest of the world may suffer along with China the anticipated environmental degradation.

  • 20 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Good for you, and I hope you always oppose consumption and waste.

    It is encouraging to know that some in China are not greedy; the general impression I get is that it is a society obssesed with greed, as America is generally obssesed with self-importance and arrogance (and with greed running a close second).

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