Impacts of environment issues to China
Impacts of environment issues to China
Introduction
Further to our presentation of title “Environmental issues and its impacts to China”, I am elaborating the key impacts of the environmental issues in details here.
Due to the economic reforms carry out in China in past 30 years, with the opening of market to overseas and introduction of the foreign investments to China. China has maintained a high speed growth, with the average GDP growth rate at 10%. China now is already the second largest economy with GDP of US$9,181.38 billion in 2013, it surpassed Japan in 2010 according to International Monetary Fund1. China has maintained at a fast and steady economic grow in the past decades, together with the growth, demand from different necessities increase gradually, people are having higher living requirement and looking for more mobility in cities, so urbanization and energy consumption problems have been brought to attention.
Air pollution is definitely the top problem caused by the economic development in China. Water disaster and desertification are also the side effect of the rapid growth. This is one of the challenges that Chinese Government needs to handle in order to maintain a sustainable growth in economic growth, it is no way to sacrifice environment and only focus on economy, end up, China will suffer from the lack of measures for tackling the environmental problems.
Some of the major impacts of environmental issues including 1) Health problem; 2) Social instability; and 3) Natural habitat problem.
Impact - Health problem
It is not surprise that China is now the biggest consumer and producer of energy in the world. Coal supplied accounted for majority (69%) of China’s total energy consumption in 20112. Chinese production and consumption of coal has increased for the 13th consecutive year in 2012. China’s consumption and production represent almost half of the rest of the world combined3. Due to the high coal consumption, China is also the world’s
Introduction
Further to our presentation of title “Environmental issues and its impacts to China”, I am elaborating the key impacts of the environmental issues in details here.
Due to the economic reforms carry out in China in past 30 years, with the opening of market to overseas and introduction of the foreign investments to China. China has maintained a high speed growth, with the average GDP growth rate at 10%. China now is already the second largest economy with GDP of US$9,181.38 billion in 2013, it surpassed Japan in 2010 according to International Monetary Fund1. China has maintained at a fast and steady economic grow in the past decades, together with the growth, demand from different necessities increase gradually, people are having higher living requirement and looking for more mobility in cities, so urbanization and energy consumption problems have been brought to attention.
Air pollution is definitely the top problem caused by the economic development in China. Water disaster and desertification are also the side effect of the rapid growth. This is one of the challenges that Chinese Government needs to handle in order to maintain a sustainable growth in economic growth, it is no way to sacrifice environment and only focus on economy, end up, China will suffer from the lack of measures for tackling the environmental problems.
Some of the major impacts of environmental issues including 1) Health problem; 2) Social instability; and 3) Natural habitat problem.
Impact - Health problem
It is not surprise that China is now the biggest consumer and producer of energy in the world. Coal supplied accounted for majority (69%) of China’s total energy consumption in 20112. Chinese production and consumption of coal has increased for the 13th consecutive year in 2012. China’s consumption and production represent almost half of the rest of the world combined3. Due to the high coal consumption, China is also the world’s