Even in Qiongdao, the hottest place, the temperature can still reach more than ten degrees in winter. In a place where humans live on a large scale, there is no place where the temperature really remains unchanged all year round.
The eastern Asian region where China is located is actually one of the most suitable regions for human life, and the only region that can be compared with it is the North American continent.
However, with the continuous development of mankind and the process of industrialization becoming faster and faster, the environmental quality of China is getting worse and worse. It can be said that in many places it has reached an unbearable level.
Shuchuan, where Xiao Qi is located, is a little better. Although it is a basin and it is humid all year round, the industrial pollution is not too big. It is just because it is located in a basin, so a lot of pollution cannot easily escape.
On the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, even if the industrial scale were ten times larger, it would still be a trivial matter.
Over the years, the North China Plain has had the worst environmental quality in China.
This great plain, which occupies one-fifth of China's cultivated land, has vast terrain and is located in the capital area. Therefore, since the 1950s, many factories have settled here.
After the reform and opening up, steel plants, petroleum refineries, etc., which had a great impact on industry, sprung up in the North China Plain.
These two types of factories are also large consumers of electricity, so more power plants will follow.
According to statistics in 2013, there are thousands of steel plants and oil plants on the North China Plain, and there are also thousands of highly polluting factories, plus tens of thousands of large and small power plants.
, this place has become the hardest hit area by industrial pollution. In seasons like autumn and winter, pollutants stagnate in the air, and yellow, even black clouds are everywhere.
At this time, what is free in the air is PM2.5 particulate matter, which is very toxic. If breathed into the lungs, it will cause great harm to the human body.
In the past, the concept of pm2.5 had not yet come out, and people didn’t think it had anything to do with it. They just thought that autumn and winter were often foggy days, and even yellow fog spread all over the land. It could not be seen from dozens or even ten meters away.
Traffic accidents are most likely to occur at this time when no one is around.
Since knowing what the pm2.5 index in the air represents, people's safety awareness has immediately increased a lot. Before most people go out, they will listen to today's pm2.5 index. If it is very bad, then
They will go out wearing masks.
In China, excellent air quality means the pm2.5 index is below 35, and good means below 75, which means that it basically needs 75 to be tolerable and suitable for people to work and play outdoors.
If many cities still often have good air quality, the capital, which is surrounded by these heavily polluting factories, has basically had no better air quality since March this year.
In such a half-year period, the capital's air quality was severely polluted on 93 days, severely polluted on 48 days, moderately and lightly polluted on 37 days, only 4 days were good, and not even one was excellent.
This is the weather quality in summer and early autumn. If it comes in autumn and winter, when pollution is usually very serious, you can imagine how bad it will be.
Everyone knows that the people in the capital are residents under the emperor's feet, and they have a sense of superiority. Of course they are in trouble because they are in such a "dangerous" environment.
People in the capital really like to make noises. If there are more people making noises, the center will naturally receive opinions.
They were very hesitant at first.
Although everyone knows how good it is to have a sky with good air quality, not only the common people, but also the bosses and their families can get the most direct benefits.
But the problem is that now the economy is in charge, and developing the economy is more important than anything else.
Once these factories and power plants are shut down, the industries in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei will be hit hardest, which will not be beneficial to economic growth at all.
On the one hand, it is a healthy environment, and on the other hand, it is crucial economic development. The bosses are really very cautious about what to choose and do not dare to make a decision easily.
However, after October, there was a big opportunity.
The cause was that in early October, Capital TV broadcast a news report, which was about thirty children in a kindergarten in a certain suburb who suddenly contracted pneumonia and were admitted to the hospital.
According to the doctor's examination, the cause of their illness was due to inhaling too much PM2.5 particulate matter, and 1 kilometer away from them was a small-scale high-pollution coal power plant. Normally, there would be nothing, but because it was about to
It's the heating season, and this power plant happens to be responsible for supplying gas to nearby residents, so a lot of coal has been piled up in the open-air dam recently. The harmful substances in the coal have been dispersed into the air, and finally the children have gotten sick.
Acute pneumonia.
This is a big deal now.
It should be said that adults can still have strong resistance. When encountering this kind of situation, they can endure it, or wear a mask, or take medicine for treatment, but how can children prevent it?
Their own awareness of prevention is not strong to begin with, and children’s resistance is relatively weak, making them most vulnerable to these PM2.5 particles.
In any country, children are the future of the motherland and the most precious treasure of their parents. When they are harmed, parents are more angry than when adults themselves are harmed.
So a group of parents blocked the door of the power plant and made a fuss. In the end, hundreds of police officers were dispatched to calm the matter down.
Now in the Internet age, someone just happened to post a video of the dispute and confrontation, which then triggered a strong reaction across the capital, which can be described as widespread complaints.
Especially parents with children, they think that their children may also suffer such an experience, and the air pollution will definitely be much more serious after heating in winter. PM2.5 in the air will be more dense, and the children will be more likely to get sick.
It must be higher. They immediately stopped working and began to use various channels to respond to the problem and express their dissatisfaction strongly.
Of course, the staff in the ministries, commissions and centers also have children. When they see this situation, they dare not say that they are asking for help directly, but they can still add fuel to the flames.
Just like that, the government held three meetings specifically on the issue of air pollution in October, one of which was an executive meeting, which shows that the central bosses attach great importance to this matter.
Of course, after seeing so many meetings, everyone understands that the disputes are actually very big, and the opinions of both parties often become a mess, and often no one can convince the other party.
In the end, the nine giants held a meeting to discuss and finally set the tone of the matter.
"Renovate factories with backward production capacity, reduce the number of factories with high energy consumption and pollution, actively introduce measures to meet emission standards, supervise factories to improve their environmental awareness, promote a good weather environment nationwide, and allow people to breathe healthy and fresh air
.”
This decision is not just for the capital, but has been extended to the entire country.
Although the situation varies from place to place, it is very rare for the central government to make this determination. At least from the national level in the future, it will become more and more stringent in requiring the elimination of backward and highly polluting production capacity, and will further strengthen environmental governance and provide a better environment for the people.
This does not matter even if some economic development speed and results are lost.
Many people in the Internet Center are talking nonsense, saying that our country's economy is already very developed and has become the world's foundry. How can we continue to develop the economy and develop high-energy-consuming and high-pollution industries such as steel?
As everyone knows, China's economic aggregate has increased, but if you remove all those foreign-invested factories in China, then you will know that the remaining 50% is good.
Hua really can't make much money in contract manufacturing, and it's all eaten up by high-end companies in the industrial chain. What we get is not hard-earned money, it's simply hard-earned money that's even worse than beggars.
The only thing that is better is the sale of various energy sources, as well as these steel and other useful products, including ships, etc. These are a large part of the income. If it really doesn’t care about heavy industry at all, then tell me, Hua
How does the country make money?
Do you just rely on OEM to produce iPhones, shoes, and brand-name bags?
Stop joking!
Do you think the people in the central hub are stupider than the people in the network hub like you? How could they keep doing this if they didn't have to?
The development of China cannot be achieved by boring people just talking.
You still have to do things down-to-earth in order to develop.
For example, the old industrial base in Northeast China has declined in recent years, but no one can deny the important role it played in China's industry, military and other aspects before the 1990s.
When you look at those factories now, you think they are old and outdated and should have been eliminated long ago.
However, in the environment at that time, they played a mainstay role. If it weren't for them, how would we have the foundation to develop future industries?
I believe that after twenty years, these high-energy-consuming and high-pollution industries actually have their own significance at this stage.
Pollution and development are not absolutely opposite. At some point, they are interdependent.
However, we can definitely achieve a better balance between the two.
Just like the order issued by the government now, it is to find such a balanced path!
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