Air pollution to kill 600,000 in China by 2020

时间：2007-07-21 06:34:15

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Chinanews, Beijing, July 20 - According to a joint1 report by Organisation2 for Economic Co-operation and Development and the National Environmental Protection Administration, more than 270 million urban Chinese are breathing polluted air nowadays. It is estimated that about 600 thousand of them will die an early death by 2020 due to polluted air.

 

Every year, 20 million Chinese fall victim to respiratory diseases caused by pollution, not including 5.5 million chronic3 bronchitis patients.

 

Some overseas media say that every year about 750 thousand Chinese are killed by air pollution, and they claim the data are taken from a report by the World Bank. However, the Ministry4 of Health and the National Environmental Protection Administration have confirmed the data to be false, and demanded that the World Bank delete them from its report.

 

"I have not read that report, thus I don't want to comment on it. Air pollution is still a severe problem in China, although it is very difficult to analyze5 its harm quantitatively," said Zhou Jian, deputy director of the National Environmental Protection Administration.
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1 joint m3lx4     
adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合
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  • I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
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3 chronic BO9zl     
adj.(疾病)长期未愈的，慢性的；极坏的
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  • Famine differs from chronic malnutrition.饥荒不同于慢性营养不良。
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n.(政府的)部；牧师
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