ABSTRACT
Research report aims to strengthen environmental lead pollution controls and to lower children's levels of lead exposure. It is based on the driving force, pressure, state, exposure, effect, and action (DPSEEA) framework in how it collects, organizes, and analyzes data on environmental lead exposure and blood lead levels in Chinese children. The research report recommends comprehensive measures to prevent and control environmental lead pollution and lead poisoning in children. China's industrial pollution is the primary factor causing blood lead levels in children that exceed the allowable limits. Enterprises involved in mining and metallurgy, both extracting and smelting, were distributed mostly through central and western parts of China. The process involved collecting information on enterprises on the Chinese mainland that produce and assemble batteries and that retrieve batteries for recycling, and that are involved in mining heavy metals. The production process of batteries generates wastewater, sludge and discharged gases that contain large quantities of toxic heavy metals.
