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CEF Director, Jennifer Turner, Quoted by Marketplace about the groundbreaking documentary Under the Dome

China’s Premier Li Keqiang said in 2015 National People’s Congress that the government is serious about cutting smog and will impose harsher fines on polluters. Keqiang's comments came after the online release this month of a groundbreaking — at least, for China — documentary on the country’s air pollution crisis, called “Under the Dome”

CEF Director, Jennifer Turner, Quoted by Marketplace about the groundbreaking documentary Under the Dome

China’s Premier Li Keqiang said in 2015 National People’s Congress that the government is serious about cutting smog and will impose harsher fines on polluters. Keqiang's comments came after the online release this month of a groundbreaking — at least, for China — documentary on the country’s air pollution crisis, called “Under the Dome”

The country’s environment minister compared it to Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring,” the book that paved the way for the U.S. environmental movement, but Chinese officials have been silent on the film since — and it’s even been taken offline in the country, presumably by government censors.

Still, China observers say this may be the country’s “Silent Spring” moment. “The Chinese public has come to believe they have a right to a clean environment,” says Jennifer Turner, director of the China Environment Forum at the Wilson Center.

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