How far can China go with polluting the environment for development?

Since 195s, China has developed from an out-and-out agricultural country to an industrial country, and its GDP is second only to that of the United States. China's development, scientific and technological progress and scientific and technological innovation are naturally indispensable, but it is undeniable that in many ways, the development of China is at the expense of huge environmental pollution, which is exchanged for shocking environmental pollution.

At the beginning of China's reform and opening up, some foreign experts were worried that the serious environmental pollution caused by China's economic development would have incalculable negative effects on the whole world. Now it seems that it is by no means alarmist.

As a citizen of China, what we are most concerned about is: how far can China go in exchange for development by polluting the environment?

first, how far can China go if it pollutes the atmosphere for development?

In p>213, China suffered an unprecedented large-scale serious air pollution. Smog weather repeatedly hit Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Jiangsu, Hefei, Wuhan and Chengdu, and most areas in the central and eastern regions were hit by smog weather in different degrees.

Fog weather with visibility less than 2 ~ 1, meters appears everywhere, and visibility in some areas is less than 2 ~ 5 meters. When the smog weather was the worst, the invasion area exceeded 1.4 million square kilometers, so that PM2.5 in many cities across the country seriously exceeded the standard.

On January 15th this year, the report "Towards an Environmentally Sustainable Future-National Environmental Analysis of the People's Republic of China" issued by the Ministry of Environmental Protection of China showed that less than 1% of the 5 largest cities in China met the air quality standards recommended by the World Health Organization. Seven of the 1 most polluted cities in the world are in China.

Around January 29th, the air quality in Beijing, Tianjin, Shijiazhuang, Jinan and other cities was Grade VI, which was a serious pollution. The air quality in Zhengzhou, Wuhan, Xi 'an, Hefei, Nanjing, Shenyang, Changchun and other cities is Grade 5, which is a serious pollution.

In some parts of our country, pollutants interact with each other and are superimposed with the pollution from nearby cities and industrial areas, forming areas with serious air pollution. With the increasing frequency of smog, haze and acid rain, the environmental quality in these areas is generally declining.

The most terrible thing is that air pollution is no longer confined to cities at all levels. In the vast rural areas of China, air pollution is also becoming increasingly serious, and the situation of air pollution all over the country is becoming more and more worrying. Except for Tibet and some remote mountainous areas, it is difficult for China people in most areas to breathe clean air.

second, how far can China go with polluted land for development?

With the acceleration of industrialization and urbanization, the problem of soil heavy metal pollution in China has become more and more prominent, and serious environmental hazards caused by pollution have occurred from time to time and are on the rise.

in p>212, the statistics of China's Ministry of Land and Resources showed that at present, more than 1% of China's cultivated land area has been polluted by heavy metals to varying degrees. Among them, there are 2 million hectares of cultivated land polluted by mining areas, 5 million hectares of cultivated land polluted by oil, 5, hectares polluted by solid wastes, nearly 1 million hectares polluted by "industrial three wastes" and more than 3.3 million hectares of irrigated farmland.

According to the data of Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, about half of the cultivated land in some cities in South China is polluted by toxic heavy metals such as cadmium, arsenic and mercury and petroleum organic substances. The contiguous farmland in some cities in the Yangtze River Delta is polluted by various heavy metals, resulting in 1% of the soil basically losing productivity and becoming "toxic soil".

researcher Chen tongbin, director of the environmental restoration research center of the institute of geographical science and resources, Chinese academy of sciences, told us that "toxic land" has seriously restricted the development and utilization of land in China, exerted tremendous pressure on the sustainable utilization of soil resources, and profoundly affected people's health.

According to online media reports, the "poisonous land" has led to the emergence of many "cancer villages" in many parts of the country inexplicably, and ordinary people have been shot unconsciously in their ancestral land.

The most terrible thing is that a large number of "poisonous sites" are seriously threatening the basic elements of life that almost everyone in China lives on, such as grain, vegetables, fruits and all kinds of livestock for human consumption. So that it is difficult for people in China to eat truly safe food now.

Third, how far can China go if it uses polluted water for development?

according to the information provided by the national environmental security strategy report, in 23, among the 47 key monitoring sections of seven major river systems in China, only 38.1% of the water quality of the sections met the standards above Class III, and the water quality below Class V accounted for 29.7%. 75% of the lakes in China are eutrophic to varying degrees, especially Chaohu Lake, Dianchi Lake and Taihu Lake. 3% of the coastal waters are Grade IV and Grade IV seawater. The frequency and area of red tide increased obviously.

ten years later, the water pollution situation in all parts of China is increasing. The tragic phenomenon of "all rivers are dry and all water is polluted" has appeared one after another in all parts of the country. Many rivers "live water turns into dead water", completely losing the self-purification ability of nature.

Last year, experts from China Geological Survey broke the news in an international underground water forum, and 9% of the underground water in China was polluted to varying degrees, of which 6% was seriously polluted.

xinhuanet reported that the continuous monitoring data of 118 cities in China by relevant departments showed that about 64% of urban groundwater was seriously polluted, 33% was slightly polluted, and only 3% was basically clean.

The most terrible thing is that water pollution is not limited to cities, but also terrible in rural areas. The overall water pollution situation in the country is getting more and more serious, and it is difficult for China people to drink safe water now.

from the end of last year to the beginning of this year, the scope and severity of air pollution in China are obvious to the Chinese, and Beijing and the central and eastern regions are still shrouded in the lingering shadow of smog weather. As for the fact that the water and soil pollution in China is getting worse, a jingle circulated by the people more than ten years ago gave a very vivid description: washing rice and vegetables in the 195s, washing clothes and irrigating in the 196s, the water quality deteriorated in the 197s, fish and shrimp became extinct in the 198s, and people suffered physically and mentally in the 199s.

How can we describe the increasingly serious environmental pollution in China from the 21st century? It can be said that the environmental pollution in China today is far from being confined to the people's body and mind. Everything between heaven and earth and nature is deeply affected by environmental pollution.

for decades, most of our governments at all levels, leading cadres at all levels, large and small enterprises and people of all ethnic groups in China have held the attitude of "as long as GDP is increased, as long as money can be made, regardless of pollution", and some even hold the attitude of "poisoning is better than development; The attitude of "poisoning rather than dying in poverty" has been developing without scruple along the rough development mode of crazy exploitation, profligacy and wanton excavation of natural resources, and has exchanged outrageous environmental pollution for sustained growth and endless money. But how far can China go on this road of development? Shouldn't we seriously, comprehensively and thoroughly reflect on it?