polluted Shanghai
China Hearsay praises the Shanghai Daily for a story on pollution. Actually, Chinese media have never been afraid to report about China's problems, poverty, aids, corruption or pollution, as long as it was very far away in another province. Never they would do so at home, unless they cannot really avoid the issue - like when party secretary Chen Liangyu was disposed of.
What would really be a breakthrough would be the Shanghai Daily reporting on environmental scandals in Shanghai.
The environment in Shanghai halfway the 1990s was really shockingly bad and the government has taken tough action to improve the living climate. Pollution factories were moved to the country side or actually closed down, building sites had to be covered in a green wrap, so dust would not leave the site, taxi's all got their lpg-systems.
But in the past year, the situation has deteriorated again. Not sure what the cause is, but much of the dust seems from the deserts, that would get to Beijing but never bothered us so much in Shanghai.
Now, I want to read a story about that.
(Picture from City of Sounds)
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