You might think it’s unfair when the Japanese complain that China is polluting their air space or other Asian countries complain about China’s lack of pollution control. But take one look at these photos and you’ll see exactly what they’re talking about.
1. Factory emissions against a backdrop of lush greenery
2. Child playing in the trash at a village, Jiaxing
3. Heavily polluted river in Jiaxing, Zhejiang
4. Fishermen picking fish in a polluted canal, Beijing
5. Residents stare at a heavily polluted river in Zhugao, Sichuan province
6. Over 3,000 dead pigs float in Huangpu River
7. Workers clean up leaked oil after an oil pipeline explosion, Qingdao, Shandong
8. Dead fish in water filled with thick, muddy algae, in East Lake, Wuhan
9. Woman collects plastic bottles near river polluted by reddish dye
10. Great Wall Of China, with not-so-great hidden secrets
11. Fisherman cups a handful of water from the algae-filled Chaohu Lake in Hefei
12. Labourer tries to clean up oil from water, Dalian, Liaoning
13. Journalist takes a sample of red polluted water from the Jianhe River
14. Boy swims in water choked with algal bloom, Qingdao, Shandong
15. Girl walks through smog in Beijing, where small-particle pollution is 40 times over international safety standard
16. Child drinks water from stream swimming with waste in Fuyuan County, Yunnan province
17. Worker clears dead fish floating in a lake in Wuhan, Central China’s Hubei Province
18. Workers try to drain sewage water from leaking sewage tank, Shanghang, Fujian
19. Child swims with the garbage in a polluted reservoir, Pingba
20. Pollution from a factory in Yutian, 100km east of Beijing
