Does your local quality of air explain your cognitive dissonance or is it simply the fact that you are an ageing badly educated male?
And isn't it frightening that China, a country with severe air polution also has an oversupply of males compared to females? The majority of the uneducated also ageing.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.an oversupply of males compared to females?
Well being a culture that tolerates putting little girl babies in dustbins will do that for you.
LenHazell53
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Aug 29, 2018
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Go to China about 3 times a year. They are turning toward green energy and the pollution gets better and better every time I go. Amazing country- Americans should visit - they get a 10 year visa. I have to renew every visit 
Chinese are so wonderfully hospitalble and welcoming.
Livia
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Aug 29, 2018
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The ten-year visa is not extended to the British or are you on an EEC passport?
Do you china visit for business or pleasure?
It is great to hear first hand that the air pollution is decreasing. I can remember when a non-smoker living in London was being as polluted as smoking 20 cigarettes a day living on the windy Irish Sea NW Coast.
@FrayedBear I am living in Chicago on an H1B visa, so will be going back to Britain in 3 years time. I have been here for 3 years already, so I may go for a green card if America kicks out the GOP. I may even do something really different and work in Latin America.
My Chinese visa has to be granted to me in Chicago on a British passport, so I can only get a tourist visa for 2 entries maximum and they are time limited to my ticket dates usually.
The least polluted place I have visited is Ningbo, and the most polluted place i have been to is Hebei province. It can be nasty there.
Shanghai and Beijing are really improved, but in the winter cloud cover can still make it bad. However, it gets better with every trip. I have been going there for 3 years and can see it transform in front of my eyes.
They have made a huge effort to make solar energy farms in the deserts and private homes can have incentives for solar paneling. Plenty of private factories have been closed down for pollution violations and now, China is refusing to do landfill for other countries’ waste.
In Beijing and Shanghai, vegetarianism is growing and there are some vegan restaurants! Big change is happening there all the time.
I work in international partnerships within higher ed, so it’s a regular trip for me. I rush around visiting a city for two days and then getting on a plane or train to the next university. It’s intense!
@Livia A long long time ago I had to fly in fly out here in Australia. It soon palled. A long time ago a beautiful client, a senior nurse educator/deputy matron fled Australia to teach English, I think in Shanghai University. Originally she was a Geordie, her father a coal miner, migrating when he was 50.
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