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CHINA

  • 30/01/1998
  • WHO

China has found its biggest threat yet. Pollution. With 178,000 annual deaths being attributed to urban pollution, the nation's leaders have become keenly sensitive to the issue and going by the rhetoric and new regulations, are indeed concerned about the problem. The blood-lead levels in Chinese children are 80 per cent more than what is considered safe for normal mental development and the level of pollutants in the atmosphere are at least two to five times higher than the World Health Organization guidelines. China discharges 14 per cent of the world's greenhouse gases and is the largest contributor to global warming, second only to the us .

The Chinese leadership faces an enormous task

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