China tackles the health effects of air pollution

Zhu, Chen; Wang, Jinnan; Ma, Guanghui; Zhang, Yan-Shen

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(13)62064-4

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“…About twothirds of Chinese cities are short of water, exacerbated by severe surface and ground water pollution. Air and water quality in cities and the surrounding rural areas are deteriorating, with increases in respiratory diseases and cancer rates 8 . In 2013, Beijing hit a high for the number of days with smog pollution -46 of the first 100 days of the year.…”

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Society: Realizing China's urban dream

Bai

Shi

Liu

2014

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Society: Realizing China's urban dream

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2014

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“…With the rapid development of industrialization in the last two decades in China, especially in Beijing, the air pollution has progressed to an astonishing level. The poor air condition would be responsible for 350-500 thousand of premature death each year in China [1], which exerts extreme influence and damage on human and the living condition [2]. Following the 2008 Olympic Games, air pollution problems in Beijing became a public focus around the world.…”

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Influence of Social-economic Activities on Air Pollutants in Beijing, China

Zheng

Yin

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Abstract:With the rapid economic development, the serious air pollution in Beijing attracts increasing attention in the last decade. Seen as one whole complex and grey system, the causal relationship between the social development and the air pollution in Beijing has been quantitatively analyzed in this paper. By using the grey relational model, the aim of this study is to explore how the socio-economic and human activities affect on the air pollution in the city of Beijing, China. Four air pollutants, as the particulate matter with size 2.5 micrometers or less (PM 2.5 ), particulate matter with size 10 micrometers or less (PM 10 ), sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) and nitrogen dioxide (NOx), are selected as the indicators of air pollution. Additionally, fifteen socio-economic indicators are selected to account for the regional socio-economic characteristics (economy variables, energy consumption variables, pollution emissions variables, environment and construction activity variables). The results highlight that all variables are associated with the concentrations of the four selected air pollutants, but with notable differences between the air pollutants. Most of the socio-economic indicators, such as industrial output, total energy consumption are highly correlated with PM 2.5 , while PM 10 , SO 2 , and NOx present in general moderate correlations with most of the socioeconomic variables. Contrary to other studies and reports this study reveals that vehicles and life energy do not have

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“…Air pollution in China poses adverse effects on health, longrange pollution transport, and global/regional climate (Chen et al, 2013b;Wang et al, 2014;Wuebbles et al, 2007). With the rapid industrialization and urbanization, air pollutant emissions increased consistently, accompanied by frequent occurrence of heavy pollution events (Herrerias et al, 2013;Hu and Jiang, 2013;Liang et al, 2011;Zhang et al, 2015b).…”

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Village energy survey reveals missing rural raw coal in northern China: Significance in science and policy

Zhi

Zhang

Sun

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Environmental Pollution

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a b s t r a c tBurning coal for winter heating has been considered a major contributor to northern China's winter haze, with the district heating boilers holding the balance. However a decade of intensive efforts on district heating boilers brought few improvements to northern China's winter air quality, arousing a speculation that the household heating stoves mainly in rural area rather than the district heating boilers mainly in urban area dominate coal emissions in winter. This implies an extreme underestimation of rural household coal consumption by the China Energy Statistical Yearbooks (CESYs), although direct evidence supporting this speculation is lacking. A village energy survey campaign was launched to gather the firsthand information on household coal consumption in the rural areas of two cities, Baoding (in Hebei province) and Beijing (the capital of China). The survey data show that the rural raw coal consumption in Baoding (5.04 Â 10 3 kt) was approximately 6.5 times the value listed in the official CESY 2013 and exceeded the rural total of whole Hebei Province (4668 kt), revealing a huge amount of raw coal missing from the current statistical system. More importantly, rural emissions of particulate matter (PM) and SO 2 from raw coal, which had never been included in widely distributing environmental statistical reports, were found higher than those from industrial and urban household sectors in the two cities in 2013, which highlights the importance of rural coal burning in creating northern China's heavy haze and helps to explain why a number of modeling predictions on ambient pollutant concentrations based on normal emission inventories were more bias-prone in winter season than in other seasons. We therefore recommend placing greater emphasis on the "missing" rural raw coal to help China in its long-term ambition to achieve clean air in the context of rapid economic development.

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China tackles the health effects of air pollution

Cited by 336 publications

References 2 publications

Society: Realizing China's urban dream

Society: Realizing China's urban dream

Influence of Social-economic Activities on Air Pollutants in Beijing, China

Village energy survey reveals missing rural raw coal in northern China: Significance in science and policy

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