Pollution in China is bad. How bad is it?

[The Straight Story]

Chinese man seeks divorce after smog drives family apart

A Beijing man is seeking to divorce his wife after she took their son to a tropical island province to escape the capital's notorious smog, saying the long-distance relationship had destroyed their marriage, state media said on Thursday.

The man, identified only by his family name of Wang, married his wife in 2008 and had a son two years later, the Beijing Times reported, in a story widely picked up by other Chinese media outlets online, including Xinhua news agency.

But their son developed serious health problems because of Beijing's air pollution and his wife took the son to the southern resort island of Hainan to escape the haze.

However, Wang's wife did not like Hainan and nor did she like living apart from him, and whenever the two of them met they fought, the report said.

http://www.lbcgroup.tv/news/153140/1405010726-lbci-news

[davidpdx]

1. He should ask for a divorce from China

We get the shit from China here in Korea sometimes. It is very bad.

[Scuba]

2. Wang, eh. That narrows it down.

[Nanjing to Seoul]

3. Yeah, from Zhang, Gao, Li, Sun and Song.

I love Chinese news. . .when a non-Chinese does something, it's always "a foreigner did something," because all non-Chinese come from this mystical, magical place called "Wai Guo" 外国. But Chinese are always "surnamed (blank)" in order to allow them to maintain and save face.

[Nanjing to Seoul]

4. I posted in the Asian group that here in Suzhou, the levels were over 450 for six days.

I love when my students, when the pollution sucks here, open the windows to my classroom and complain they want fresh air in the room.

I just look outside, fail the see the HUGE skyscraper twin towers less than .5 miles from my school and say "yeah, let's get all that fresh air from inside outside." Then my school sells gasmask to the students for 15RMB each.