High Environmental Cost behind Low China Price |
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| Authors: | Fan Xiaoshan Gao Jixi |
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| Institution: | 1. Institute of Mountain Hazard and Environment, Chinese Academy of Science &2. Ministry of Water Conservancy , Chengdu , Sichuan , 610041 , China;3. Ministry of Water Conservancy , Chengdu , Sichuan , 610041 , China;4. Regional Ecology Department , Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences , Beijing , 100012 , China |
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| Abstract: | Abstract China has won the name of the world factory being famous for exporting a great deal of and various kinds of low-price merchandise. However, most of Chinese exports are primary goods or manufactured products that create heavy pollution and require intensive use of resources. Chinese products go abroad, but their following harms stay behind. The article analyzes many obvious low-price facts in China and their concomitant terrible environmental results in detail, and points out that there are huge hidden troubles in the way of China's sustainable development behind her seemingly flourishing economy. |
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| Keywords: | low China price resource pollution |
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