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Pollution problem 5:18pm on 15 Jul 2008 I grew up in the city of Taiyuan in Shanxi province, which is the coal producing province of China. During my childhood my city has been repeated listed as the most polluted city in the world. However, most of my friends don't have respiratory problems. In fact, to date, I have never had any allegy problems, any respiratory probelms and better lung function test than most people in UK if you normalise for age and height. As atheletes trained in Beijing would be used to the air quality, there will be a home advantage. But there is always a home advantage.

Beijing has always had problems with pollution. Even before the huge surge in development, Beijing was famous for its dusty and windy springs. The situation is my city at least has got a lot better over last few years. And to be honest, it is only with further economical development that we will have the financial and technological capacity to cope with and reverse pollution.

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