Shanghai Pollution

Infrastructure and environmental problems of the city are in the form of housing shortages and air and water pollution. Heavy dependence on coal as a source of fuel for both industrial energy and residential heating in Shanghai has resulted in significant air pollution. Shanghai has the highest cancer mortality rate in China. Also, a daily flow of approximately 4 million cubic meters of untreated human waste enters the Huangpu River creating a serious water pollution and supply problem. A total of 33 heavy polluting and 31 major polluting industrial enterprises started to discharge waste within the set standard through improvement last year. The number of such industrial enterprises have accounted for 81.2 percent of the city's total.Up to now, the city has completed 13 environment-friendly projects which reduce the total amount of discharged waste water by 2.45 million tons annually, and greatly cut down the discharge of sulfur dioxide and, smoke and dust. Shanghai also invested huge amount of money to dredge its more than 8,800 urban river courses and waterways last year.