CHINA, AS THE “WORLD’S FACTORY”, IS SUFFERING FROM SERIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS IN TERMS OF ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY

Year 2017, Volume: Volume 2 Issue: İssue 1 (1) - 2.İnternational Congress Of Forensic Toxicology, 33 - 33, 16.02.2017

Gulibahaer Rejıepu Zeliha Kayaaltı

Abstract

The latest
international research results of the Global Burden of Disease Project from the
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation showed that 5.5 million people die
every year around the world because of various diseases caused by air
pollution, with 1.6 million located in China. Research also shows that the huge
number of abnormal deaths caused by air pollution over the world each year is
mostly concentrated in some countries undergoing the rapid process of
industrialization, especially the so-called emerging economies like China and
India. In China, which is responsible for the huge number of deaths caused by
air pollution worldwide each year, coal is the leading source of serious air
pollution without any doubt. When people inhale significantly polluted air, it
may cause stroke, respiratory diseases, heart disease and even cancer in the
human body. The number of deaths resulted from air pollution are much more than
those resulted from malnutrition, obesity, alcoholic and drug abuse, and unsafe
sex threats, so it is actually considered an invisible killer and its harm to
the whole society should not be underestimated. In the recent years, with the
high speed of economic development, China has benefitted from economic
globalization, but it is also suffering from great environmental pressure from
its massive export-oriented industry, as a result of which, an increase in
environmental pollution has been observed. To overcome this, related
departments in China have attached great importance to these problems and
certain actions have been carried out according to the basic principles and
research methods of environmental toxicology which has a remarkable role in
solving all kinds of environmental pollution problems occurring worldwide.

Keywords

CHINA, AS THE “WORLD’S FACTORY”

References

• Ankara University, Institute of Forensic Sciences