China Pollution Tops Public Concerns
From Tuesday’s South China Morning Post, story by Emerald Dong:
The survey, organised by the China Youth Daily and Tencent, China’s largest instant messaging service provider, found that about 95 per cent of the 6,600 respondents rated the nation’s environmental degradation as severe and 70 per cent felt local government paid little regard to green priorities.
Water pollution topped the list of respondents’ concerns, with 87.1 per cent of people worried about its effects, followed by air pollution, domestic and industrial waste, food contamination, desertification and noise pollution.
The poll was conducted in response to the China Meteorological Administration’s (CMA) announcement earlier this month that Beijing had been classified for the first time as an “acid-rain city” and 80 per cent of the city’s rainfall in August was acid rain.
The only saving grace I suppose is that Beijing get so little rain anually.
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November 30th, 2006 10:57
A bit off-topic, but what are your thoughts on Tencent’s media? I havn’t read too much news from tencent, but everyone now and then when QQ pops up something interesting i will give it a read.
I’ve noticed in several of their games they censor a whole lot. Even the word 美国 is censored for reasons i can’t imagine.