As the 2013 China Environment and Health Awareness Week is one of the important activities of Air Quality and Health Summit held in Beijing on July 30th. Mr. Chen Zhu, Vice Chairman of NPC and Chairman of China Peasants and Workers Democratic Party Central Committee, attended the forum and noted that air pollution is a serious threat to people's health, we have to take strong measures to control air pollution without delay.

Chen Zhu, chairman of China Environment and Health Awareness Week group leader, who at the forum stressed that the air pollution, both indoors or outdoors, are affecting human health a major environmental hazard. Higher levels of air pollution, people's respiratory system and heart vascular health condition worse by respiratory infections, heart disease and lung disease burden will bring heavier.

World Health Organization 2011 data show that indoor air pollution can cause approximately 2 million premature deaths each year from outdoor air pollution caused by the world's 130 million deaths(http://www.best-news.us/).

Earlier this year, China continued to occur in the eastern region during the massive haze pollution, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases compared with previous years, the incidence rate rose significantly, Peking University Third Hospital Respiratory only emergency patients an increase of 124.73%.

Chen Zhu pointed out that China is in rapid development of industrialization and urbanization, an important period, we must correctly handle the relationship between economic development and environmental protection, and take a neither destroy ecology, but also allows people to live a better life on a new path.

Beijing Forestry University Chancellor Song Weiming speech at the forum pointed out, simply to control emissions at the expense of economic development to achieve the air pollution control goal is unrealistic, you must apply the power of natural ecosystems to reach the green control and sustainable development.

Song Weiming said, for the deteriorating air quality problems, the school assumed the lead public sector national forestry research and special studies - 'Forests for PM2.5 particulate matter such as the regulation of function and technology research' has achieved initial results.

China Health Education Association YIN Da-kui, the State Council Development Research Center of Resources and Environmental Policy Research Institute deputy director Zuo Jun, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences researcher Wang, etc. He delivered a speech at the forum(News News http://www.best-news.us/).

China Environment and Health Awareness Week has been held since 2008, five of this year's Awareness Week organized by the industrial party Central Committee and the State Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Ministry of Environmental Protection and other 10 departments jointly organized this year is 'the ecological environment and health 'as the theme.