The environmental challenge to China and Cincinnati

The environmental issues impact all the Chinese, when I was in primary
school, China had a strong dust storm that every citizens need to wear
masks when they walked in the streets. It is a seasonal meteorological
phenomenon which affects much of East Asia sporadically during the
springtime months. When I on the way, I cant breathe the air because the
dirty air made me feel uncomfortable. There are a lot of issues that we need
to solve them.
Areas affected by the dust experience decreased visibility and the dust
is known to cause a variety of health problems, not limited to sore throat and
asthma in otherwise healthy people. Often, people are advised to avoid or
minimize outdoor activities, depending on severity of storms. So we should
let bike instead of bus, let railway instead of car.
Second, China has a serious climate change problem, China can suffer
some of the effects of global warming, including sea level rise, glacier retreat
and air pollution. The implications of climate change, indubitably, impose
serious setbacks on global health and will hinder the economic development
of various regions worldwide impacting countries on more than just the basic
environmental scale. As in the case of China, we will see the effects on a
social and economic level.
Chinas first National Assessment of Global Climate Change, released
recently by the Ministry of Science and Technology , states that China
already suffers from the environmental impacts of climate change: increase
of surface and ocean temperature, rise of sea level. Qin Da he, former head
of Chinas Meteorological Administration, has said that the temperatures in
the Tibetan Plateau of China are rising four times faster than anywhere else.
Rising sea level is an alarming trend because China has a very long and
densely populated coastline, with some of the most economically developed
cities such as Shanghai, Tianjin, and Guangzhou situated there. Chinese
research has estimated that a one-meter rise in sea level would inundate
92,000 square kilometers of Chinas coast, thereby displacing 67 million.
There has also been an increased occurrence of climate-related disasters
such as drought and flood and the amplitude is growing. They have grave
consequences for productivity when they occur, and also create serious
repercussions for natural environment and infrastructure. This threatens the
lives of billions and aggravates poverty. Furthermore, climate change will
worsen the uneven distribution of water resources in China. Outstanding
rises in temperature would exacerbate evapo-transpiration intensifying the
risk of water shortage for agricultural production in the North. While because
of the southern regions over abundance in rainfall, most of its water is lost

due to flooding. As the Chinese government faces challenges managing its

expanding population, an increased demand for water to support the nations
economic activity and people will burden the government. In essence, a
water shortage is indeed a large concern for the country.

Lastly, climate change could endanger human health by increasing

outbreaks of disease and their transmission. After floods, for example,
infectious diseases such as diarrhea, cholera are all far more prevalent.
These effects would exacerbate the degradation of the ecologically fragile
areas in which poor communities are concentrated pushing thousands back
into poverty.
Third, water resources and water pollution are the other environmental
problem. Over the last three decades, China has transformed from
impoverished farming-reliant country to the Factory of the World, but at a
high price. The widespread dumping of toxic chemicals and industrial
wastewater has poisoned rivers and groundwater and the people who rely
on them. In Western China, there are a huge number of the poverty child that
their parents cant afford them better education and the better life. The
poverty will causes the hunger problem, the poor people dont have the
money to support their food, so the hunger rate are increasing every year in
china.