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[maryknight]

i'm still thinking of china. i don't like high polution areas. do i need to rule china out on that basis? are there any areas you know of that are not too poluted? i don't speak any chinese, but i'm also not a party person so i think i could be okay in a smaller town as long as i could make it to a place where i can socialize (i mean find people who speak english!) on the weekend sometimes.

[themanymoonsofjupiter]

people complain about there not being enough to do in Dalian, but you'd be fine if you're fine with small-town life (not to say dalian is a small town). there are plenty of other native english speakers here that you could meet up with. oh, and the most important part, it's really pretty clean. you hear every chinese person talk it up like it's the greatest, and it's not. but after travelling all over china, there aren't many other places i'd rather live---great weather, generally clean.

[saint57]

Look at Kunshan. It's 30 Minutes from Shanghai and 20 minutes from Suzhou.

[Sonnet]

There are a few little-ish places around Jiangsu which are nice & pretty clean.

Xinjiang's fairly unpolluted too, as long as you steer away from Urumqi.

[amandabarrick]

http://www.cleanairnet.org/asia/1412/article-58764.html

Most polluted cities and environmentally friendly cities in China.

[Roger]

I hate aeroplanes and only travel by air if I have no other choice...that's how I collect some useful practical data...

Take a plane from, say, HONG KONG or MACAU - right on China's coast - and take to the air.

Within minutes you will see where China begins and where it ends.

There is a huge opaque cloud of brownish or grayish colour beneath the plane all the time.

It continues even all the way to Taiwan - clearly beyond CHina's international boundary.

In other words: there is no unpolluted place from one end to the other.

CHINA DAILY used to say TIBET was the only relatively unpolluted area..


Just ask a true Tibetan how they feel about the veracity 0of this claim...

[BuzVega]

Head out to Xinjiang... just stay away from Urumqi. I lived in Korla, where the air was fairly clean.

[saybanana]

[mondrian]

[Sinobear]

North-west Fujian has a lot of smaller cities that are excellent. Wuyishan and Shaowu are good cities; however, difficult to find entertainment.






Cheers!

[KarenB]

All cities in Hainan (well, there really is only one real city -- Haikou) are comparatively pollution free. There's little industry here, people cook with gas or wood rather than coal, and there are strong winds to blow away all the pollution.

[stillnosheep]

Yangshuo in SE China has relatively little pollution for much of the time. Surrounded by hills this small, pretty-in-places town with many karsts, busy night life, and lots of westerners and western places to eat, is not at all industrial.

(With a big up to Dahlian.)

[SimonM]

Well... not Lishi than.

[voodikon]

i haven't been there to verify the claims, but sichuan's mianyang (about two hours outside of chengdu and the province's second-largest city)'s claim to fame is "being very clean."

[KarenB]

What's a karst?

I haven't been to Mianyang, but lived in Sichuan for 2 years. You'd have to get at least 2 hours out of Chengdu to get away from Chengdu's pollution.

The town I lived in Sichuan (Nanchong) wasn't bad except for the oil refinery across the street from the university.

However, Sichuan can get depressing for someone with Seasonal Affective Disorder (all those clouds).

Good food though