This paper aims to evaluate the cost of environmental degradation by adopting the conventional environmental economic methodology in China from 2004 to 2017 and summarize the change in both the causes and costs of Ch...This paper aims to evaluate the cost of environmental degradation by adopting the conventional environmental economic methodology in China from 2004 to 2017 and summarize the change in both the causes and costs of China’s environmental degradation.Results from this study revealed the following:i.The environmental degradation cost in China increased from 511 billion yuan to 1,892 billion yuan from 2004 to 2017,and its share in the GDP decreased from 3.05% to 2.23%;ii.The environmental degradation cost growth rate was lower than the GDP growth rate.The environmental degradation cost growth rate decreased sharply,by dropping from 10% in 2014 to 2% in 2017.The environmental benefits of industrial transformation have emerged;iii.The provinces of Shandong,Hebei,Jiangsu,Henan,and Guangdong had the highest environmental degradation costs.The annual average growth rate of the environmental degradation costs in Jiangsu,Guangdong,and Zhejiang were lower than their growth rate of the GDP respectively;iv.Consideration of environmental degradation cost in decision-making could contribute to the high-quality development of China.展开更多
Dear Editor,Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARSCoV-2)was identified as the pathogen causing the coronavirus disease(COVID-19),which sometimes resulted in fatal pneumonia(Hu et al.,2021).SARS-CoV-2 is ...Dear Editor,Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARSCoV-2)was identified as the pathogen causing the coronavirus disease(COVID-19),which sometimes resulted in fatal pneumonia(Hu et al.,2021).SARS-CoV-2 is a biosafety level 3(BSL-3)pathogen,and the requirement for high containment conditions is a bottleneck for basic research on viral biology.To help general researchers who wish to study SARS-CoV-2 but do not have access to a BSL-3 facility,a system that(1)can mimic the real life cycle of the virus;(2)allows easy genetic manipulation;and(3)shows high biosafety in BSL-2 laboratory is required.展开更多
基金Supported by National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2016YFC0207605)Ministry of Ecology and Environment Financial Program of China(No.2110105).
文摘This paper aims to evaluate the cost of environmental degradation by adopting the conventional environmental economic methodology in China from 2004 to 2017 and summarize the change in both the causes and costs of China’s environmental degradation.Results from this study revealed the following:i.The environmental degradation cost in China increased from 511 billion yuan to 1,892 billion yuan from 2004 to 2017,and its share in the GDP decreased from 3.05% to 2.23%;ii.The environmental degradation cost growth rate was lower than the GDP growth rate.The environmental degradation cost growth rate decreased sharply,by dropping from 10% in 2014 to 2% in 2017.The environmental benefits of industrial transformation have emerged;iii.The provinces of Shandong,Hebei,Jiangsu,Henan,and Guangdong had the highest environmental degradation costs.The annual average growth rate of the environmental degradation costs in Jiangsu,Guangdong,and Zhejiang were lower than their growth rate of the GDP respectively;iv.Consideration of environmental degradation cost in decision-making could contribute to the high-quality development of China.
基金This work was supported by Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,China(XDB29050100)National Natural Science Foundation(21890743,31725002)+4 种基金Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS(2021359)Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong(2018B030306046,2020A1515111130)Shenzhen Science and Technology Program(KQTD20180413181837372)Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Synthetic Genomics(2019B030301006)Shenzhen Outstanding Talents Training Fund.
文摘Dear Editor,Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARSCoV-2)was identified as the pathogen causing the coronavirus disease(COVID-19),which sometimes resulted in fatal pneumonia(Hu et al.,2021).SARS-CoV-2 is a biosafety level 3(BSL-3)pathogen,and the requirement for high containment conditions is a bottleneck for basic research on viral biology.To help general researchers who wish to study SARS-CoV-2 but do not have access to a BSL-3 facility,a system that(1)can mimic the real life cycle of the virus;(2)allows easy genetic manipulation;and(3)shows high biosafety in BSL-2 laboratory is required.