AirpollutioninChina中国空气污染英文

The Air Pollu tion in China Abstract China is now faced with serious air pollution, such as PM2.5, NOx and SO2. It’s time to take effective and strict measures on pollution control. People should heighten the environmental awareness and take simple steps in normal. Meantime, government have to formulate relevant laws and regulations to create a harmonious society. Keywords: China, air pollution, regulations. 1 Status of Air Pollution in China Air quality has become a big topic in recent years. Tens of millions of people across China have been forced to cope with high levels of PM2.5 -- particulate matter smaller than 2.5 micrometers in diameter that can penetrate the lungs and harm the respiratory, cardiovascular, cerebral vascular and nervous systems. Air pollution is not just about sore throats, but really more of a matter of life or death. The harmful effects that smog can have on the human body are one of the top concerns among those who reside in the country’s bigger cities. Due to the coal dominating energy structure, the urban atmospheric environment in China has been seriously polluted by high concentrations of NOx and SO2 since many years ago. With the rapid development of economy, urbanization and transportation in the past two decades, vehicle exhaust pollution also aggravated. Within the last two decades, all types of environmental problems, which were experienced for nearly a century in developed countries, exploded in the developed regions in China. Regional air pollution complex, combined with coal-combustion pollution and vehicle-exhaust pollution has emerged in key city clusters of China, which was characterized as a complex of local and regional pollution and multi-pollutants. ...