ID: 8350955
Dateline: Recent
Location: China;
Duration: 1’58
Source: China Global Television Network (CGTN)
Restrictions: No access Chinese mainland
Published: 2023-11-14 15:37
Last Modified: 2023-11-14 17:02
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An amateur photographer in Shijiazhuang City of north China’s Hebei Province has recorded the improvement of the city’s air quality with his camera, as told by an episode of a China Media Group documentary series.
Titled “Snapshots of Modernization”, the documentary tells stories about the changes in every aspect of the life of ordinary people.
This episode focuses on Wang Ruchun, a local resident in Shijiazhuang, who has been taking photos of the sky every day since 2014.
Shijiazhuang was one of the most heavily polluted cities in China back then. The polluted air produced negative impacts on people’s normal life and caused damages to residents’ health.
However, in the course of taking his daily photographs, Wang noticed the sky in the photos was changing, from gray to blue.
Such a change shows that the efforts the Chinese government has put into controlling pollution have paid off.
In 2013, China launched its battle against air pollution. By 2022, average PM2.5 levels in key cities across the nation fell by 57 percent.
The decade of efforts has brought blue skies back, and people have become much happier for not living in a polluted environment.
Chinese modernization is socialist modernization pursued under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. It contains elements that are common to the modernization processes of all countries, but it has more features that are unique to the Chinese context.
Chinese modernization is characterized by the following features: It is the modernization of a huge population, the modernization of common prosperity for all, the modernization of material and cultural-ethical advancement, the modernization of harmony between humanity and nature, and the modernization of peaceful development.
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