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Linfen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
China's rapid industrialization and urbanization beginning in the 1990s led to increased energy demand causing a dramatic increase in the price of coal. This led to a rapid expansion of loosely regulated private mines. Mining and the heavy industry which developed around it led to severe environmental damage.[5]
In 2006, the Blacksmith Institute included Linfen in its annual "10 worst" report, calling the city the most polluted city nationally.[6] It has also been listed as one of the world's ten dirtiest cities by the Popular Science website.[7] The city has ranked at the bottom of the World Bank's air quality rankings.[8]
From its low point, in 2004, with only fifteen days out of the year with an acceptable level of air pollution, the environmental situation has improved.[9] After a series of negative reports on the extreme level of pollution in the city, efforts were made to clean up Linfen. Substandard mines were closed.[5] Coal trucks were kept from entering the city, resulting in much less coal dust. The city has also switched much of its heating infrastructure from coal to gas. 197 large coal-fired boilers and more than 600 smaller, family-size boilers were decommissioned. As of 2007, 85 percent of the city uses natural gas rather than coal for their heating. The State Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) has forced many of the less-efficient smaller factories to close and enforced stricter standards for larger factories including mandating the installation of sulfur scrubbers.[9]
Since 2006, the government has taken a series of measures to change the industrial structure, changing the economic development mode, relevant policy was issued such as emission threshold of industrial pollution. Over the last few years the Ministry of Environmental Protection has closely monitored Linfen's environment. Now it has been listed as a model city for environmental protection in Shanxi Province. Linfen has paid a lot for it as reported, the industrial economic GDP only has dropped 36 billion and the fiscal income has decreased 7.2 billion. Compared with the dropping economic, the environment in linfen has improved dramatically. On February 23, 2014, Linfen has been reported from the "most polluted city" to "model city for environmental protection" on China Youth Daily
Tianying - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tianying (Chinese: 田营; pinyin: Tiányíng) is a town under the administration of Jieshou, which is in turn administered by the prefecture-level city of Fuyang, in northwestern Anhui Province, China. The town has 26,095 inhabitants according to the 2001 census.
Nearly half of China's lead production is located in Tianying and the surrounding area. The use of antiquated technology and lack of proper disposal has led to high levels of lead pollution in the area. While the government closed some of the lead factories in 2003, the Blacksmith Institute still rated the place as one of the world's most polluted in 2007.[citation needed] Tianying, along with the Chinese city of Linfen, are two of the world's most polluted cities according to Time Magazine
Linfen, China - The World's Most Polluted Places - TIME
The TIME article was about the work of Blacksmith Institute (an international NGO, check Pollution l Blacksmith Institute l Solving Pollution Problems. Saving Lives. ), and was on 2007.
The report here is by World Health Organization, on 2014.
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