September 2014
Is It Safe? Pollution And Food Safety
Unbreathable air and toxic food top the list of urban China’s anxieties, and the government has finally started to take notice. Since taking office in 2013, President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang have aggressively stepped up efforts to clean up the polluted skies and improve the safety of the food supply. The air pollution efforts have borne some fruit: average levels of fine particulates fell by 9% in the first half of 2014. But a lot more needs to be done to make these gains secure.
Also in this issue:
- Arthur Kroeber analyzes Xi Jinping’s war on corruption
- Tom Miller explores the proposed economic corridor to Kolkata
- Andrew Batson documents the explosive rise of private companies