Flickr/Richard Jones Pictures of the day: 22 February 2013 Senator who attempted to impeach Clinton admits lovechild Coach: Oscar Pistorius could possibly be back training in a few days The Chinese government has accepted for the very first time that decades of careless pollution have produced a chain of dangerous "cancer villages." Flickr/Richard Johnson The entrance by China's Environment ministry came in a five-year anticipate tackling pollution. aIn the past few years, dangerous and dangerous chemical pollution has caused many environmental problems, reducing off drinking water supplies, and also leading to serious health and social dilemmas such as acancer villagesaa the report says. Environmentalists have long campaigned for the federal government to help and recognise the hundreds of cancer clusters caused by poisoned soil, water or air. In 2009, Deng Fei, an investigative journalist helped to plan a few of the worst-hit villages on a Google map. aI do think this shows an optimistic development,a said Ma Jun, one of Chinaas leading environmentalists. aThe acceptance of the existence of problems could be the 1st step and the precondition for all of us to essentially start solving these problems.a aBefore there is often this tendency to play down and on occasion even hide the issues. If that remains then each one of these difficulties with air, water, soil and groundwater pollution and their health impact could drag on for a, long time.a The plan outlines a clampdown on the use and production of 58 kinds of hazardous substance. aThe report warns that China faces a grave situation in terms of chemical pollution control, quoting insufficient pollution risk control by businesses, deficiencies in systematic policies to control the building and usage of highly toxic and dangerous chemicals and authoritiesa inadequate pollution monitoring and supervision capabilities,a state news agency Xinhua noted on Friday. The planas newsletter comes amid a growing public outcry within the toll pollution is dealing with public health. Cancer is now China's greatest monster, and cancer rates have increased since the beginning of China's economic miracle. One in four Chinese now die from cancer, and there has been an 80pc increase in the death rate from cancer within the last 30 years. Experts predict that lung cancer rates will continue steadily to increase because of air pollution, even though China's dependence on cigarettes is brought in check. Since January, recurring rounds of harmful smog in Beijing and other major cities have pushed the problem of air pollution to the utmost effective of Chinaas political agenda. The emphasis has changed underground, with a series of local media reports on what producers are apparently working huge quantities of hazardous waste in to groundwater supplies that month. The issue of groundwater pollution hit the news after Mr Deng launched an on line strategy inviting internet-users to publish pictures of polluted waters near their homes. Mr Deng said he was apetrifieda by their state of Chinaas waterways. aIf things carry on like this, we shall all be doomed,a he said. aIf the matter [of soil water pollution] isn't properly solved, not only will kill people to it but it will also move down the entire health system because of the quantity of cancer patients it causes.a Ma Jun, who runs the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, mentioned government officials had usually believed there is insufficient scientific evidence to link acancer clustersa and pollution. While more research was required to begin a clearer connection, Mr Ma said China urgently needed to follow in the actions of the United States and Japan by adopting aprecautionarya procedures. Amazement can not just say that until each one of these links have been proved 100 percent, scientifically and medically, [we do nothing].a Mr Ma said the governmentas verification of acancer villagesa was section of an ongoing change towards greater environmental openness. aRecently the government, especially the central government, has been more open about these environmental pollution issues, much more open than before. The effect used to be considered an extremely sensitive matter because it matters to (political) stability.a SEE ALSO:A These Pictures Show Why China's Smog Issue Is Wholly Unmanageable
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