A Dream for a Better World

In recent years, entanglements about noise pollution can be found more and more. The government in England had to compensate 20 billion pounds to 100 to 200 thousand residents who live near to the Heathrow Airport because they suffered from the noise pollution from the airport at night. From 11:30 pm to 6:00 am, noise of 16 planes affects people’s normal and peaceful life so they turned to the lawsuit and won. If residents living near to Gatwick Airport and Stansted Airport also turn to laws for noise pollution, the government would compensate much more. More than 200 thousand fresh-water turtles with soft shell in Henan province of China were killed by noise pollution but no solutions yet. That was not an exaggeration. Big machines for road construction gave out high decibel noise which killed more than 200,000 turtles. The Government did not want to compensate the loss up to 1600 thousand RMB and the turtle bodies were still stored in the refrigeration house as evidence. In the past 20 years, noise pollution has increased in the globe.
Noise pollution, air pollution and water contamination are considered as the leading pollution in the world but noise pollution can not be paid much attention compared with the other two kinds of pollution. On the contrary, if the terrible results like the two examples above are not caused, noise pollution is always ignored by human beings. The WHO has made some surveys about noise pollution. They found that noise in developed countries had become more and more terrible. In America, the number of people living in the environment with decibel more than 80 has increased by some times during the past 20 years. In European countries, 40% people suffer from noise from vehicles every day. In some cities of developing countries, people also suffer from noise pollution. In some regions, the noise can be up to the decibel of 75 to 80 all day and all night. WHO said that noise pollution had affected people’s health and the quality of life and they called upon all countries to take pressures to control and reduce noise pollution.
Noise pollution not only comes from the environment outside but also the family itself. People often complain the noise pollution from vehicles, industrial production etc which we can not control. But they always ignore the noise pollution which they can control and reduce. Nowadays, people have more and more electronic appliances such as TV, computers, refrigerator, speakers etc. According to some test, TV, speakers etc can produce noise with decibel up to 60 to 80 and washing machine can produce the noise up to 42 to 70 decibel. Actually, some criterions from the government tell us that the noise in the day should be no more than 50 decibel and in the night should be less than 40 decibel. Otherwise, the noise would impose bad effects on people’s health, especially to children. Family noise even can cause some diseases to children. For example, kids would be deaf and dumb if they often suffer from terrible family noise.
Therefore, the government and people should struggle for noise pollution together for the sake of our health. If people are not healthy, everything they do seems meaningless.

Hainan Island, also Hainan province, is located in the bottom part of China. When we talk about Hainan Island, we will associate it with beautiful sunshine, blue and clear water, wide beech etc. Hainan Island belongs to tropical region so it is very warm all around the year. When the winter is coming, many people from home and abroad come to the island for holiday.
On the 5th session of the 10th national people’s congress, Chinese premier, Wen Jiabao said that we should establish Hainan as a green island, Open Island, an island of civilization and an island of harmony. He also claimed that environmental protection and ecological construction should be put in the first place for Hainan development if we wanted to have a green island. Great ecological environment is not only the precondition for Hainan development but also the strong support for the sustainable development in Hainan Island. If the ecological environment is destroyed, the fundamental advantage will be lost in Hainan province.
However, the beautiful scene in Hainan not only attracts tourists but also some real estate developers who catch the business opportunities in the beautiful place. According to the news from some newspaper, real estate development has destroyed the ecological environment in Hainan Island. Yalong Bay, situated in Sanya city in Hainan, is considered as “the First Bay in the World”, attracting many tourists from home and abroad. But in recent years, real estate has developed so fast in Yalong Bay. At present, there are more than 12 restaurants along the coastline with 7 km. From June in 2004 to the end of 2005, guest rooms increased from 2857 to 5616 with growth rate up to 97%. In the year 2009, Hutchison Whampoa of Hong Kong, Yingke real estate Company, Xinhongji Real Estate Company and Shanghai Consortium planned to invest 1000 billion Chinese currencies together to develop Haitang Bay in Sanya city. Jinyuan Investment Company planned to invest 58 billion RMB to construct the Sanmei Bay in Sanya city. Yalong Bay National Resort District has planned the second round real estate development. Huaruen Group from Hong Kong also planned to invest more than 100 billion RMB to construct Shimei Bay and Shenzhou Peninsula in Wan’ning City of Hainan Island.
Besides destruction to Hainan from real estate development, other kinds of human activities also destroy Hainan environment. Some factories directly discharge polluted water into the beautiful sea without any purification steps. Most cities except Haikou and Sanya in Hainan province do not have the ability to deal with polluted water and sewage is directly or indirectly discharged into sea. People also feed shrimps along high coastline and they also mine titanium. Such behaviors absolutely destroy coastal forest.
High-ranking officials in China have started to pay more attention to the environment in Hainan province. The deputy Prime Minister, Wang Qishan, ever put forward that we should establish Hainan as the back garden of China. Another official also declared the construction guidelines called “Three Nos ”. Anyhow, we look forward to retaining the natural beauty in Hainan by a series of policies and measures from the government.