China censors 750,000 environmental deaths

About 750,000 premature deaths caused by the environmental degradation have been eleminated from a World Bank report, writes the Financial Times (here in a pick-up from Howard French). The fear of "social unrest" was quoted as the reason to skip the information from the report.
The report has not been released officially, but a draft was available last year on the internet.

Missing from this report are the research project’s findings that high air-pollution levels in Chinese cities is leading to the premature deaths of 350,000-400,000 people each year. A further 300,000 people die prematurely each year from exposure to poor air indoors, according to advisers, but little discussion of this issue survived in the report because it was outside the ambit of the Chinese ministries which sponsored the research.
Another 60,000-odd premature deaths were attributable to poor-quality water, largely in the countryside, from severe diarrhoea, and stomach, liver and bladder
cancers.