China's environmental protection ministry published a report in November 2010 which showed that about a third of 113 cities surveyed failed to meet national air standards last year. According to the World Bank 16 of the world’s 20 cities with the worst air are in China. According to Chinese government sources, about a fifth of urban Chinese breath heavily polluted air. Many places smell like high-sulfur coal and leaded gasoline. Only a third of the 340 Chinese cities that are monitored meet China’s own pollution standards.China’s smog-filled cities are ringed with heavy industry, metal smelters, and coal-fired power plants, all critical to keeping the fast-growing economy going even as they spew tons of carbon, metals, gases, and soot into the air. The air pollution and smog in Beijing and Shanghai are sometimes so bad that the airports are shut down because of poor visibility. The air quality of Beijing is 16 times worse than New York City. Sometimes you can't even see buildings a few blocks away and blue sky is a rare sight. In Shanghai sometimes you can't see the street from the 5th floor window. Fresh air tours to the countryside are very popular. The reason that china has such bad air quality is the amount of industry and products that the chinese make and ship out of the country. If china wasnt so dependent on thir idustrys then the sir quality wouldnt be so bad because there wouldnt be as many pollutints being emmited into the air. The bad air quality isnt only bad for the chinese that are in the citys but also the atmosphere becaus ethey are putting alot of C02 into the atmosphere.
China has grown into a huge industrialized coutnry. This is a very unsafe and unhealthy problem that they have created. They may be becoming wealthier but sicker at the same time. If you can't even see some of the buildings because of the pollution, then that should be a sign right there. I agree that it is not just hurting them but it is also hurting our atmosphere.
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