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milkweedma
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 Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:13 am Post subject: Air Quality in Changchun and Jilin cities. |
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Can anyone tell me if the air quality is ok in these cities?
I know Yangji has great air in the summer because I went through there last summer. I want to know how it is in the two main cities in this province too.
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Is the air quality poor, average or good most of the time.
Blue sky days high, low or non-existant.
Is it better or worse according to the seasons (as coal is burnt in the winter predominantly.)
Are people sick a lot with upper or lower respiritory illnesses due to the air quality?
Cheers muchly. |
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tw
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| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:33 am Post subject: |
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| I lived in Changchun for a year and other than two days when there were sandstorms, the sky was mainly clear throughout the year. The air quality was good despite what many people say about the pollution. Like most northern Chinese cities, the air quality does go down in winter due to smoke from burning coal for heating. To me, the air quality in Changchun is much better than that in Beijing. The proof comes from looking at the tissue after blowing one's nose. |
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Teatime of Soul
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| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 2:00 pm Post subject: |
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Changchun isn't bad, Jilin is noticably better. The surrounding foothills seem to ward off the sandstorms and there are plenty of blue sky days.
Both far and away better than Beijing in air quality. |
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lf_aristotle69
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| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 2:45 pm Post subject: |
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I can only speak for ChangChun. As the others have said it has many crystal clear blue sky days. I don't know if it is the mountains, as one person suggested, or the prevailing winds...?
I also found that it seemed to have a very regular (weekly) fall of rain to clear the muck out of the air.
Over the past 6 years I have lived (in chronological order) in ShangHai, (very near) BeiJing, ChangChun, Hunan province (near ChangSha), and now in HangZhou. Only ChangChun relieved my longing for the clear blue skies of my hometown, Brisbane, Australia. Even HangZhou is often pretty smoggy, not bad at the moment though.
I haven't been in ChangChun for 3 years now. So, I don't know if it's still as clear as it was when I was there.
LFA |
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Seth
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| Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:00 am Post subject: |
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Changchun has the worst pollution I've ever seen. NE China in general has horrid pollution.
If you're there for the winter, be prepared to cough up grey phlegm. |
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lf_aristotle69
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| Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:40 am Post subject: |
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| Seth wrote: |
Changchun has the worst pollution I've ever seen. NE China in general has horrid pollution.
If you're there for the winter, be prepared to cough up grey phlegm. |
How long were you in CC for? When?
I was living there for 8-9 months during 2004/5. As I said, during that time most of the time it was very clear air. In the N-E of China, I've visited ShenYang a couple of times... the pollution was much, much worse. I've visited Harbin, not too bad for the few (mid-winter) days I was there at least.
I know what Chinese pollution is like.
ShangHai 2002 - terrible pollution. (Relatively) Much better these days though.
BeiJing (and nearby) late 2002-4 - really terrible pollution... ahh, I think everyone knows that it's not good now either...
ChangChun early/mid2004-5 - usually clear air and skies thanks to prevailing winds and regular (approx. weekly) rainfall during the May - Feb period I was their. Beautiful blue skies, just like I was back home in Brisbane! Yes, after the rain the smog builds up again, depending on the wind, it can build up only a little, or else just like most of China...
ChangSha/XiangTan early2005-7 - pretty bad pollution. Very rare to have clear skies. Long wet season keeps the air pretty clean for a large part of the year, but other times just as bad as Beijing.
Hangzhou early2007-now - nowhere near as good as ChangChun, and getting worse due to rapidly increasing traffic.
We have to face it. China is not doing anything good for our respiratory systems... I think Chinese people (and us too), and China as a nation is going to face massive medical costs in the mid-term future. I wonder how the developing insurance industry is preparing for that?
Cheers,
LFA
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redpiston
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| Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:57 am Post subject: |
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The air quality of Changchun city in the southwest side of the city has the heaviest pollution. Changchun is one of 10 cities in China that registered the lowest urban air pollution in 2004 and has continued this trend ever since.
These are Beihai, Haiku, Zhanjiang, Kelamayi, Zhuhai, Rizhao, Guilin, Fuzhou, Quanzhou and Changchun. |
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El Macho
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| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 11:47 pm Post subject: |
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| I was in Changchun Aug 06-Oct 07 and the air quality was great. Beautiful blue skies most of the time. |
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Jeff3
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Beautiful blue skies every day. Only seen 3-4 cloudy days from Dec.-Mar.
Changchun is 45% green space. Lots of trees and parks everywhere. It's one of the newest cities, with an excellent infrastructure. Built after the war originally by the Japanese with German planning (something like that, from what I could remember reading about it on Wikipedia...check it out) |
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