China has some stunningly beautiful natural landscapes, but, as boredpanda.com explains, they may not count for much when, in other parts of the country, pollution runs totally unchecked. China is very close in size to the USA. Yet, as The Burning Platform notes, their population is the size of the entire Western Hemisphere, plus Japan, Germany, and France. The land can not support this mass of humanity without very dire consequences, and these shocking photos show what severe pollution people have to deal with in some parts of China... ============================================== Boy Swims In Algae-Filled Water, Qingdao, Shandong Journalist takes a sample of red polluted water in the Jianhe River in Luoyang Heavily Polluted River Pollution from a factory in Yutian, 100km east of Beijing Fishermen row a boat in the algae-filled Chaohu Lake in Hefei, Anhui province Fishermen clean up oil at an oil spill site near Dalian Port, Liaoning province Smog In Beijing Fisherman Covered In Algae, Chaohu Lake Heavily Polluted River Smog In Beijing Child Swims In A Polluted Reservoir, Pingba Worker cleans away dead fish at a lake in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei province Workers clean up floating garbage on the Yangtze Rive Heavily Polluted River In Jiaxing, Zhejiang child is reflected in a drainage ditch as he jumps over trash at a village which will soon be demolished Buildings In Beijing Surrounded By Smog Factory Polluting The Air Fisherman fills his cupped palms with water from the algae-filled Chaohu Lake Fishermen Collecting Fish In A Polluted Canal, Beijing A woman collects plastic bottles near a river where water is polluted with a reddish dye in Dongxiang Workers collect dead fish at a park in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, Child drinks water near a stream in Fuyuan county, Yunnan province Flies Gather On Railings Because Of Polluted Water, East Lake, Wuhan Girl collects water from a puddle at a dried-up reservoir as her father stands beside her in Baofeng county Boy tries to avoid scattered rubbish floating on a flooded street in Shantou, Guangdong province * * * Source: BoredPanda.com and The Burning Platform blog