西方新闻中的中国 2015-12-02？ In Baoding, China, the country's most polluted city, the smog is thick enough to see. It can burn your eyes and it can leave an acrid taste in your mouth. This is the reality of daily life under the cloak of a toxic shroud. It's the air Zhao Shuang and his family breathe in every day. He grew up in Baoding, and remembers a childhood of sunny skies. Today, that is a rarity. His young son is a year old and has seen far more gray skies than blue. "When the pollution gets really serious, we can't even see the buildings next to us," said Zhao, from inside the small apartment he shares with his son, wife, and mother. On Monday, the air quality reading (AQI) at one of the city's own monitoring stations stood at nearly 1,000, the worst in the country, according to China's own Ministry of Environmental Protection. According to United Nations guidelines, a reading of more than 100 is unhealthy for at-risk groups. On the day Zhao spoke to CNN, the air quality wasn't that bad -- just four times higher than the United Nations' guidelines. But in a place like Baoding, that counts as a good day. City of contradictions Zhao heads to work in the morning like thousands of others, masks covering their mouths as they walk by a coal powered plant shooting toxins into the sky as a cold snow falls. But Zhao's factory hopes to make the coal that's to blame for much of the city's pollution obsolete -- Baoding, ironically, is leading the country's renewable energy drive. The city of one million has been named the world's first "carbon positive" city -- home to more than 200 producers of alternative energy and energy-efficient technology. Zhao works on the production line producing solar panels at Yingli Solar, one of China's largest solar power companies. It's headquartered in the middle of Baoding, and business is booming. The company has rapidly expanded their output over the last two decades or so, and hope to more than double their current capacity by 2020. "I believe there will be a large increase in the renewable energy industry, no matter whether it's solar power, wind power or others," says Allen Geng, the international sales manager for the company. Heavy pollution lingering in the skies over China have prompted a surge in demand throughout the country for cleaner energy. In 2014, Chinese companies invested more than $80 billion in everything from hydroelectric to wind to solar projects. No country in the world has invested more. 查看更多8个回答 . 4人已关注
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