China gets heavy bill to clean up air quality

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Pollution Solution

Improvements to air quality will help reduce premature deaths

In order to clean up China's air pollution crisis, the country will have to pay around 1.75 trillion yuan (£177 billion). Wang Jinnan, deputy head of the Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning, has said China has a large bill to foot in order to deal with its current air quality crisis.

China has experienced drastic levels of air pollution in recent years, with its heavy smog dominating the news several months out of the year. But the country has this year pledged to take steps to reduce emissions in a bid to improve air quality, especially in urban areas.

According to Mr Wang, the money is part of the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Plan that the company has implemented, and although it seems like a large bill, it will save China money in the long run.

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[paleotn]

1. Well, Mr. Wang does own....

...all of the air south of Beijing. Makes sense he'd want to clean it up.

Seriously, China is an environmental catastrophe. 177 billion GBP? Given the Chinese government's penchant for official bull shit, the real cost of making a dent in China's problem is probably 10 times that.

[Left Coast2020]

2. What could happen is polluters will be shut down by government. Period.

Just like they do when they want a piece of land: they make people move out in a short amount of time. Can't find another place to live? Oh well. Too bad, too sad.

A teacher there told me an apartment building was going to be replaced with a mall of some kind in another part of city (Shenyang in Liaoning Province). Residents were seniors. Some had no place to go. What did they do?

Several jumped out from top floor. Tragic.

[davidpdx]

3. Korea and Japan should send China a bill for all the shit they send our way

The pollution in China travels over into other countries and even sometimes as far as the west coast of the US

[madokie]

4. It can be done

I remember going back to riverside california back in the summer of '72 and the air was so thick there with pollution you could slice it with a knife. You couldn't see a block and they cleaned it up by stringent pollution controls on about everything including farting animals

Since we all share the same air I suspect the pollution from china is driving the CO2 up for the whole world. Pollution in general.