Dr. Zhong Nanshan, a prominent scientist, Director of the Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Diseases, and a National People’s Congress Deputy sums up China’s environmental situation (Xinhua, 3/9/12) saying:
“In the past five years, lots of patients have asked me why they still got liver, stomach or intestinal cancer despite the fact that they do not drink or smoke. This made me increasingly aware of the fact that diseases are unavoidable for us if we live in an environment with contaminated air, harmful water and poisonous food.”