Ecological situation in the 20 millionth Beijing becomes worse and worse. The press of the whole world is actively discussing a phenomenon called “Beijing cough” – a combination of symptoms similar to respiratory disease. Sore throat and dry cough with recently persecuted foreigners living in the capital of China. As soon as they leave Beijing, the symptoms gradually disappear disappear.
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Shanghai. © Aly Song | Reuters
However, sensitivity to Beijing air quality demonstrate not only citizens of other states – permanent the inhabitants of the metropolis also can’t tolerate fog and smog, periodically enveloping the city. Only in January 2013 already three times he could complicate the life of the Peking people, and from January 10 to 16 he held on for several days in a row.
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Beijing. © Jason Lee | Reuters
The causes of environmental degradation in Beijing experts call too fast the pace of economic development, as well as an increasingly complex demographic situation. Statistics report that by the end of 2012 the population Beijing reached 20 million 693 thousand people. And that’s as much as 507 thousand people more than a year earlier. And the number of cars in the capital of China has already reached 5.2 million.
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Exercises in the “fresh” air. © China Daily | Reuters
The city government plans an active struggle for cleanliness air in the capital of China.
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Beijing. © Carlos Barria | Reuters
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