Chinese Air Pollution

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“No PM exposure is safe, but the World Health Organization describes exposure to daily average PM 10 levels below 50 μg/m3 , as well as annual average levels below 20 μg/m3, as "acceptable."”
All of his perspectives express that people overly concern about Chinese air pollution. However, if we do not pay such a huge attention to it, how can people deal with a striking number of death?
According to Li Jing’s article “Air pollution is bigger killer in China than smoking, says new
Greenpeace study”4 (04 February, 2015) : “Tiny smog-inducing pollutants, known as PM2.5, led to about 257,000 premature deaths across the mainland 's 31 municipalities and provincial capitals in
2013, according to the study - an average of about 90 in every 100,000 deaths.” People have to
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Breathing is no way to choose and there is no way to escape, every breathing you make, smog and haze exists.
People feel strongly about air pollution. Economic and technology development brings Chinese a longer longevity and more opportunities to have disease rehabilitation, but the risk of air pollution has been highlighted. Over the past 30 years, mortality of lung cancer and respiratory tract cancer in
China rose 465%. Although smoking and aging are still the main factor of this statistic, the fine particles in terms of carcinogenic risk is getting more and more attentions. In 2012, PM2.5 was included in the scope of daily monitoring.
Almost every Chinese has the same daily routine when wake up, check the index of air quality and use it to arrange a day of life. Looking forward to windy days, wearing masks to everywhere and keeping children at home without doing any outside activities.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences estimates that when PM2.5 increase, mortality is increased.
Also, China 's former health minister, Chen Zhu once claimed that in China, the number of

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