20+ Shocking Photos Showing How Bad Pollution In China Has Become

China has some stunningly beautiful natural landscapes, but they may not count for much when, in other parts of the country, pollution runs totally unchecked. These shocking photos show what severe pollution people have to deal with in some parts of China.

Beijing and other parts of China have already become notorious for their incessant clouds of smog, which present very real health risks to anyone not wearing dust masks. Unregulated dumping in various rivers throughout China is fairly common, as many of the photos in this series help illustrate.

Chinese leaders have vowed to get serious on air pollution, but change will be difficult in a country whose industry has expanded so rapidly. If you have any photos illustrating these difficulties, please add them to this list.

Boy Swims In Algae-Filled Water, Qingdao, Shandong

journalist takes a sample of red polluted water in the Jianhe River in Luoyang

Heavily Polluted River

Pollution from a factory in Yutian, 100km east of Beijing i

Fishermen row a boat in the algae-filled Chaohu Lake in Hefei, Anhui province

Fishermen clean up oil at an oil spill site near Dalian Port, Liaoning province

Smog In Beijing

Fisherman Covered In Algae, Chaohu Lake

Heavily Polluted River

Smog In Beijing

Child Swims In A Polluted Reservoir, Pingba

worker cleans away dead fish at a lake in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei province

Workers clean up floating garbage on the Yangtze Rive

Dead Fish In Water Filled With Blueish Algae,East Lake, Wuhan

Heavily Polluted River In Jiaxing, Zhejiang

child is reflected in a drainage ditch as he jumps over trash at a village which will soon be demolished, on the outskirts of Jiaxing city, Zhejiang province

Buildings In Beijing Surrounded By Smog

Factory Polluting The Air

fisherman fills his cupped palms with water from the algae-filled Chaohu Lake in Hefei, Anhui province

Fishermen Collecting Fish In A Polluted Canal, Beijing

Morning Smog In Beijing

Heavily Polluted Lake In China

A woman collects plastic bottles near a river where water is polluted with a reddish dye in Dongxiang

woman walks on a bridge over a polluted river at a suburban area of Wenzhou, in Zhejiang province

Workers clean up leaked oil after an oil pipeline explosion last week in Qingdao, Shandong

man walks by a pipe discharging waste water into the Yangtze River

Workers collect dead fish at a park in Shenzhen, Guangdong province,

child drinks water near a stream in Fuyuan county, Yunnan province

Flies Gather On Railings Because Of Polluted Water, East Lake, Wuhan

Labourer Tries To Clean Up Oil From Water, Dalian, Liaoning

work to drain sewage water from a leaked sewage tank at a copper mine in Shanghang, Fujian

boy tries to avoid scattered rubbish floating on a flooded street in Shantou, Guangdong province

girl collects water from a puddle at a dried-up reservoir as her father stands beside her in Baofeng county

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