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Pollution in China

How China's economic boom is affecting the environment

There is less and less sun reaching China than a few decades ago, acid rain is falling on one third of Chinese territory and half the water in seven of the largest river systems is undrinkable. A look at the scale of the pollution problem in China and the role its economic development has played in that.

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8 minutes

大象传媒 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project