{"id":31135,"date":"2013-06-25T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T09:10:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-10-01T13:27:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T13:27:54","slug":"6135-beijing-is-trapped-in-its-polluted-neighbourhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/pollution\/6135-beijing-is-trapped-in-its-polluted-neighbourhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Beijing is trapped in its polluted neighbourhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2011, approximately 9,900 premature deaths in China are estimated to have been due to pollution. The Ministry of Environmental Protection recently released a pollution ranking of 74 cities over the first three months of the year. Of the 10 most polluted, seven are in Hebei, with the provincial capital Shijiazhuang top of the list.<\/p>\n<p>In May, Hebei and its neighbours Beijing and Tianjin reached air quality standards on only\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/roll.sohu.com\/20130620\/n379320158.shtml\">27.4%<\/a> of days, while 8.7% of days were classed as severely polluted (against a national average of 6.5%).<\/p>\n<p>The region formed by Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei is an air pollution disaster zone. Despite years of efforts by Beijing \u2013 it has done away with coal-burning power plants, exiled <a href=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/pollution\/10969-heavy-industry-drives-growth-in-china-s-emissions\/\">heavy industry<\/a>, and its service sector now accounts for over 50% of the city\u2019s economy \u2013 it cannot escape the impact of its neighbours.<\/p>\n<p>According to Wang Yuesi, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Atmospheric Physics, \u201cimports\u201d are the second biggest source of pollution in Beijing, and account for 19% of the city\u2019s PM2.5 levels. Lei Yu, from the Chinese Academy of Environmental Planning, has said that between 10% and 30% of the pollutants in Beijing\u2019s air come from Hebei \u2013 and even more under certain conditions.<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, Hebei <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/china\/zh\/news\/releases\/climate-energy\/2013\/06\/jingjinji-coalplant-health\/\">burned 307 million tonnes of coal<\/a>, accounting for 80% of coal consumption in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. Outlook Weekly reporters found small refineries, smelting plants and processors badly polluting the area around Beijing. CCTV\u2019s economics channel recently broadcast a report from a village on the Hebei border where the villagers are all engaged in burning old shoes. In some places villagers choke on the fumes if they stop outside on a smoggy day.<\/p>\n<p>A group of experts from the U.S and Greenpeace have evaluated the harm to health caused by coal burning in the area. Their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/china\/zh\/news\/releases\/climate-energy\/2013\/06\/jingjinji-coalplant-health\/\">report<\/a>, published on June 17, said that in 2011, the PM2.5 pollution from the area\u2019s 196 coal-burning power plants caused about 9,900 premature deaths, as well as almost 70,000 hospital visits or stays. Hebei\u2019s 152 coal-burning power plants account for 75% of premature deaths.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPollution from coal burning is an invisible killer. Hebei is responsible for 60% of the premature deaths in Beijing and Tianjin, but the province is also the biggest health danger within its own borders,\u201d said Huang Wei, head of energy campaigns at Greenpeace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ranking of the most polluted Chinese cities during the first three months of 2013 has been released \u2013 Beijing\u2019s neighbouring province of Hebei is home to seven of them<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":56609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[760],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"country":[],"class_list":["post-31135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pollution"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v26.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ 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