China is an amazing place with some truly spectacular natural landscapes but unfortunately in the more populated areas those landscapes are being blighted by unregulated and uncontrolled pollution. Cities such as Beijing have become well known for their smog problem that hangs around almost permanently.
No regulation coupled with rapid industrial expansion has lead to the photos you see below. Chinas leaders have promised to clean up their act and try to reduce air pollution in order to give China the best future possible. Although it’s easy to judge a problem not on our own soil, we are all somewhat responsible for the pollution too.
1. A Woman Walking through the Streets of Beijing. Here the Small Particle Pollution Is 40 times over the National Safety Standard.
2. Tourists Smile for the Camera in Front of a Fake Hong Kong City Skyline
via Molly Smith
3. Two Fishermen Row Their Boat through Chaohu Lake in Hefei, Anhui Province
via Jianan Yu
4. A Man Clearing Dead Fish from a Lake in Wuhan, Central China’s Hubei Province
via Reuters
5. Buildings in Beijing Engulfed in Smog
via China FotoPress
6. Child Drinking Water from a Stream in Fuyuan County, Yunnan Province
via Reuters
7. A Worker Trying to Clean up Oil from Water, Dalian, Liaoning
via Reuters
8. A Young Boy Swimming through Algae Filled Waters in Qingdao, Shandong
via Reuters
9. A Woman Takes a Sample from the Red Waters of the Jianhe River
via Reuters
10. Workers Trying to Drain Sewage from a Leaking Sewage Tank, Shanghang, Fujian
via Reuters
11. A Terrible View of the Not so Great Wall of China
via Sa Cha
12. A Child Swimming in a Polluted Reservoir, Pingba
via Reuters
13. A Young Boy Trying to Avoid Rubbish on a Flooded Street in Shantou, Guangdong Province
via Reuters
14. Heavy Pollution from a Factory in Yutian, 100km East of Beijing
via Peter Parks
15. A Woman Collects Plastic Bottles from a River Contaminated by Red Dye
via lu palmerini
16. A Dead Fish in Blueish Algae Filled Waters, East Lake, Wuhan
via Reuters
17. Workers Cleaning up Rubbish on the Yangtze River
via Reuters
18. A Waste Pipe Flowing into the Yangtze River
via William Hong
19. A Heavily Polluted River in Jiaxing, Zhejiang
via Reuters
20. A Young Boy Jumps over Rubbish at a Village in Jiaxing
via William Hong
21. A Factory Spewing out Smoke and Polluting the Air
via Reuters
22. A Fisherman Holds Water from an Algae-Filled Chaohu Lake in Hefei
via Reuters
23. A Woman Walking on a Bridge over Polluted Waters in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province
via Carlos Barria
24. Fishermen Collect Fish from a Polluted River in Beijing
via David Gray
25. Workers Collecting Dead Fish at a Park in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province
via Reuters
26. A Fisherman Wading through Algae in Chaohu Lake
via Reuters
27. Locals Looking at a Heavily Polluted River in Zhugao, Sichuan Province
28. Smog in Beijing.
via Brielle Cardieri
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