The environmental impacts resulting from the rapid growth of China. The positive and negative impacts on China due to the growth.

1. Environmental problems
Respiratory and heart diseases related to air pollution are
the leading cause of death in China.
Decades of waste poured from factories and cities into
China's rivers have turned many of them into open sewers.
75% of energy production is still dependent on coal.
The growth of China
China is also the largest exporter and second
largest importer of goods in the world.
China is the largest manufacturing economy in the world.
China’s economy has grown 10% in the past 10 years.
The share of employment in the primary sector has already
fallen from 70% in 1978 to around 35% in 2011.
The share of the secondary sector is now about half of GDP,
much higher than in most other countries.

2. Benefits and negative impacts of the growth of China
Benefits
China’s economic growth has
benefited the south and eastern
regions more than anywhere else.
Negatives
Pollution is a major problem in
many industrialised cities.
Increased car ownership has led to
problems of smog and worsening
air quality.
China’s middle-class population had The growing demand of the Chinese
reached more than 300 million by
economy has placed great demands
2012.
on China’s creaking power
infrastructure. This has led to the
creation of projects like the Three
Gorges Dam.
China has the world's second
Many farmers struggle to make a
highest number of billionaires.
living. Therefore, this has
encouraged a migration of workers
from north to south.
China's domestic retail market was In Beijing and the south East, house
worth over 20 trillion yuan (US$3.2 prices have increased significantly.
trillion) in 2012.
Chinese banking sector has a bad
reputation for making bad loans.
Many loans are not repaid back.