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 work together in order to find a way to handle it. 1.4 Limitation The limitation in this research paper is that the number of participant is too small, so it directly cause the questionnaire’s result is not very distinctive. 1.5 Suggest further research Further research had better collect some Chinese children as a real example to make research paper more up-to-date and believable. 5. CONCLUSION Chinese air pollution needs the whole China to pay huge attentions, especially to those new-born baby and them whose immunologic systems are not complete: our children. There are nearly 175 days are polluted in China caused by smog and haze, half of a year. The fine particulate matter will affect the respiratory system to increase the airway inflammatory reaction, increase the further impact on the cardiovascular system and decrease the capacity of blood supply. As this result, most Chinese parents have to keep their children at home avoiding breathe harmful 11 air and protect their health. If you have a chance to look China from a bigger picture, you may easily find out a place that is a purple haired bright, that is China. The smog and haze is like a ghost floating in our sky and affecting every person’s health, especially the next generations: our children. One day when I was in China, a day that was a serious polluted day with the AQ (air quality) exceed to 500. I saw children were still playing and running outside in a elementary school. When people are exercises, the breathing capacity will increase by
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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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