Greenpeace East Asia recently released this haunting seven-minute film by award-winning director Jia Zhangke, show the human as well as environmental toll of China's breakneck economic development.
Jia, who won the Golden Lion at the 2006 Venice International Film Festival but whose most recent feature A Touch of Sin was barred from Chinese cinemas by government censors, says that he set out "to make a film that moves people, not frightens them."
By following two very different families - middle-class Beijing intellectuals as well coal miners in industrial Hebei - Jia shows how “no one gets to be different when it comes to smog; no matter what jobs we do, it is still a problem we all face.”
And for those of us stuck in the smog:
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