Abstract
FOUR DECADES OF RAPID ECONOMIC growth has resulted in wide-ranging environmental damage across China (and beyond), from smog-ridden skies to contaminated rivers, toxic soils and ‘cancer villages’. These increasingly intolerable costs have emerged as a major source of social unrest in recent years. Premier Li Keqiang acknowledged this in his opening address to the National People’s Congress (NPC) on 5 March 2015: ‘China’s growing pollution problems are a blight on people’s quality of life
and a trouble that weighs on their hearts.’
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | China Story Yearbook 2015: Pollution |
| Editors | Gloria Davies, Jeremy Goldkorn, and Luigi Tomba |
| Place of Publication | Canberra |
| Publisher | ANU Press |
| Pages | 21-37 |
| Edition | 1 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781760460686 |
| Publication status | Published - 2016 |