Jia, Yu: China Hebei lung cancer deaths increased by 3 times for 40 years
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Date: 4/5/2014 4:01:19 PM
Sender: Jia, Yu
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Jia, Yu: China Hebei lung cancer deaths increased by 3 times for 40 years
贾宇 (Jia, Yu)
According to Hebei Province, mainland China's official statistics, since the last century, 40 years since the 1970s, the province of lung cancer mortality tripled, and the mortality rate in urban areas was higher than that in rural areas, the rising trend has become more pronounced, and some urban areas there also appeared a few family members at the same time suffering from lung cancer patients.
Air pollution is caused by the main cause of lung cancer mortality multiplier.
In a series of data on air quality in Chinese mainland official announced in Hebei always in the countdown to the first position in China's 10 most polluted cities in Hebei often occupy 6-7, so serious air pollution for local public health caused unbearable consequences.
Although the central government and Hebei Province have emphasized strengthening air control, but the local environmental protection department superiors and subordinates, so that pollution can not be cured.
For example: each county's Environmental Protection Agency has set air testing equipment, but this instrument is often tampered with data, to display the local air quality has reached the national eligibility requirements, as to their superiors for performance incentives.
Jia, Yu
April 5, 2014
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