Green Growth: China's War on Pollution
① As the world's largest polluter gets tough on the environment, global markets are feeling the effects.
② China has taken aim at a trifecta of troubles—smoggy air, contaminated soil and foul water—and the prices of commodities from fertiliser to paper pulp have soared.
③ Implementation of environmental measures, half-hearted in the past, has been heavy-handed.
④ In Hebei, a northern province, a ban on coal heating left residents shivering because the replacement, natural gas, was not yet ready.
⑤ Still, enough power plants have made the transition; this year China should overtake Japan as the world's largest gas importer.
⑥ But the biggest economic surprise of the crackdown on polluters so far has been its muted impact on growth.
⑦ That is in part because services have displaced manufacturing as the main component of GDP.
⑧ So while China is shaking up global commodities, its own economy looks much steadier.
▍生詞好句
green growth: 綠色增長(zhǎng) (通過使用可持續(xù)發(fā)展能源的方式獲得經(jīng)濟(jì)發(fā)展）
trifecta /tr???f?kt?/: n. 一石三鳥；連續(xù)獲得三個(gè)成就 (本意: 賽馬三連勝)
foul /fa?l/: adj. 受污染的；氣味難聞的
fertiliser /?f??t?l??z?/: n. 肥料
paper pulp: 紙漿
heavy-handed: adj. 嚴(yán)厲的唾琼；高壓的
crackdown /?krakda?n/: n. 鎮(zhèn)壓啥酱；打擊
