From CNN’s special feature Eye on China, a report called “Environment pays price of progress“:
Look out the window of an office block in downtown Shanghai, and the smog can sometimes be so thick it is hard to make out the building on the other side of the street.
Around the capital, Beijing, the desert is gradually encroaching and sandstorms are becoming a growing problem.
And in China’s heartland, the Yellow River, once known as the cradle of Chinese civilization, has in some areas been reduced to barely a trickle.
