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Beijing’s Environmental Degradation

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People are now living in a high technology and convenient society, which is provided by the companies and many factories’ goods. When people buy things from stores or supermarket, most of the goods are made in China. With economic growth and heavy industrialization, studies show a degradation of China’s environment and population health. However, some environmental issues are not ignored by most of people, until this issue has already become a generally acknowledged problem. Nowadays, when people talk about China, especially in Beijing, the most common topic is about the environment and the pollution problems. Sometimes when I open my website to check the news happened in China, the first line of the news is a colored map about the quality of the air pollution. I researched for comparing Beijing and San Diego’s real- time air quality index. In the same day on November 19th, 2014, Beijing’s air quality index showed 380, which was hazardous. San Diego showed the number of 36, which was pretty good. This shows that Beijing is facing the serious pollution and environmental damages. The overall environmental situation of Beijing is indeed a serious problem. Heavy industrial pollution factories were built in Beijing since 1970s, which is the main polluters that caused the air pollutions problems nowadays. During the time of 1953-1957 in China, it adopted the soviet model of economic development, stressing a heavy industrial base. From that time, China opened to the whole world that can let many companies and factories come into China’s market to improve the economy and give more job opportunities in China. Beijing as a capital in China, this was the first place, which those factories were largely built. According to Shaoli Pargal and David Wheeler, in the article “Informal Regulation of Industrial Pollution in Developing Countries”, “The pollution intensity of emissions is much higher for plants located in poorer, less-educated communities than in richer, better educated ones.” The authors state in his article, that heavy industrial factory was la largely built in those developing Asian countries. This directly showed the richer countries were putting the heavy pollution industrial factories into the market of developing countries, like China. For example, the shougang Crop., one of China’s largest iron and steel company near in Beijing, which is a heavy polluter. During the Olympic in Beijing in 2008, this factory was forced to shut down for many months to reduce the pollution in Beijing. As the result, to close down the factory actually greatly improved the Beijing’s air quality. However, when those factories back to running as normal, the air quality become poor again. Therefore, the heavy industrial factory caused the environmental problems, which happened in today. The impact of the heavy industrial factories, which is the main polluters and the causes that made the environment become worse than ever before. Beijing as the capital of a developing country, the expulsion of particles and chemicals into the atmosphere by industrial processes is also one of the biggest causes of the air pollution. In the article Air Pollution in Developing Countries: Industrial Influence, the author writes, "Industrialized countries contribute to industrial air pollution by sending their most heavily polluting industries to developing countries." This means that the number of industries entering developing countries is an increasing curve that is directly correlated to the increasing pollution in a city. Developing countries are being picked on by heavy industries. As we all know, when heavy industrial factory running, it will largely emits the chemicals and smoke into the air. When I was studying in Beijing, for grade school, the heavy pollution, which came from the industrial factory was evident in larger cities. Developing countries grow at a faster rate than they can regulate such industries; thus, becoming an easy threat for larger companies to enter an exploit lax regulations. Air pollution is largely caused due to emissions of chemicals from industrial processes. The emission of the secondary inorganic aerosols s

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