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In 2013, the air quality was deemed unhealthy or hazardous for over half the year,
Five years later -- in March 2019 -- as Premier Li again opened the NPC meetings,
the smog outside was still ten times worse than what the WHO defines as healthy.
China overtook the U.S. as the world’s biggest source of greenhouse gases in 2006,
The WHO estimates more than 1 million Chinese died from dirty air in 2016.
Another study puts the tally even higher at 4,000 deaths a day.
Pollution is said to have been the main cause of social unrest in recent years.
people blamed factories for polluting the air and the government for not doing
enough.
before it was banned from Chinese video websites six days after its release.
In the last few years, the government has spent billions of yuan tightening
environmental regulations,
scrapping coal-fired power plants and switching millions of homes and businesses
from coal to natural gas.
and helping build out infrastructure that allows electric cars to drive and charge
around its cities.
In 2019, over a third of the world’s solar panels are estimated to be installed in
China.
Four decades of breakneck economic growth have turned China into the world’s
biggest carbon emitter.