Guess who benefits from smog?
Updated: 2014-01-20 08:50 (chinadaily.com.cn)Editor's Note: With foggy and hazy weather spreading across the whole country－more severely in the winter－Chinese residents have been buying a variety of products to fight the prevailing high levels of pollution. Affected by the smoggy weather, the purchase of goods that can protect people from it has grown rapidly.
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A large number of people chose to travel to Chinese cities including Sanya, Xiamen, Lijiang, and Guilin to avoid the smog, which has haunted most of China for a long time. Other than that, more wealthy Chinese families will be forced to leave the country and live elsewhere where there are blue skies more often in the next decade if the smoggy weather continues.>>> Volatile organic compounds and a small amount of ozone are produced. The second, catalysis module transforms these harmful organic compounds and ozone into harmless carbon dioxide and water.>>>
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"I bought a total of 60 face masks online for my family in November, when the winter brought along with it the smoggy weather - and I keep buying masks to maintain an average stock of around 10 to 20." // Yang Hui, human resources manager "The continuous fog and hazy weather, which was one of the most hotly discussed topics in China last year, will become an important factor affecting the Chinese health care industry in 2014." // Bruce Liu, partner at Roland Berger "When the German insurer Allianz SE rolled out a "moon-gazing" insurance policy before the Mid-Autumn Festival last year, a large number of people came to us to ask when we will come out with insurance related to hazy weather. It is certain that the demand for such insurance in 2014 will remain a hot topic." // Ge Ruichao, director of Taobao's finance department "I've got no other choice because I cannot see the air condition being solved in the short term in China, and I have to figure out a quicker way to enhance the living quality of my family." // Xia Jing, housewife "We drove to stay at a hotel resort located on Mogan Mountain in Zhejiang province for six days in order to get away from the worsening weather in the city for Christmas and the new year." // Xia Jing, housewife
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Heavy smog is bad for your health, but so far it has been good at stimulating a spontaneous revelry in making and partaking in wisecracks, channeling collective anxiety into temporary optimism. Someone in Beijing says its smog is so dense he cannot see the Chairman Mao portrait at the Tian'anmen Rostrum. Another counters: "You call that dense? I cannot see the Chairman Mao image on my bank note." Don't accuse me of believing in conspiracy theories, but I have a hunch that manufacturers of facial masks are behind this. The longest distance in the world is not between life and death, but between you and me when I hold your hand in the street but cannot see your face.>>> |
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"The frequency of heavy pollution will be significantly reduced by 2017. The air quality will better meet residents' expectations as well as the general qualifications of building an international metropolis," said Wu Qizhou, deputy director of the Shanghai Environmental Protection Bureau.>>>
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China will strictly control high energy-consuming and polluting industries, adjust its energy structure and enhance control of PM2.5, airborne particles measuring less than 2.5 microns in diameter that can pose health risks, in populated regions and metropolises.>>>
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