• China’s factories and other sources of pollution produced 25.5 million bons of sulfur dioxide in 2005.

• China’s sulfur dioxide production in 2005 was 42% above government goal set in 2000.

• Each ton of a sulfur dioxide costs China US$2,500 which includes damage to buildings from acid rain and medical costs.

• China ’s sulfur dioxide emission cost US$63.8 billion in 2005.

• Less than two-thirds of Beijing’s days in 2005 met national air quality standards for excellent or good-quality air.

• 16 of the world’s twenty most air-polluted cities are in China.

• Two-thirds of China’s cities do not meet the country’s own air emission standards.

12 million bons of grain are polluted every year by heavy metals that find their way into the soil.

More than 2 million hectares of China’s soil is irrigated with wastewater.

130,000 hectares of land is used to store waste materials.

Air pollution in China is responsible for 300,000-500.000 premature deaths annually.

Auto emission accounted for 79% of total air pollution in 2005.

• China ’s cities discharge 3.7 billion tons of wastewater each year.

• One-third of wastewater discharged by Chinese cities each year is treated.

• 75% of China’s lakes are polluted.

• 50% of China’s groundwater is polluted

• More than 400 out of nearly 700 large cities suffered chronic water shortages in 1990s.

• More than 90% of Chinese waterworks use outdated technology.

• China has 44 wind power stations.

• China will increase its installed capacity of wind power projects to five million kilowatts by end of 2010.

• China has a potential wind power capacity of 1 billion kilowatts.