Pollution causes people leaving Beijing

Though their contract doesn’t __________ until next year, Hannah and Ben have decided to leave the Chinese capital and return to the UK.

The 34 year-old mother of two children said that it didn’t feel safe for their kids to play outside, because pollution had tipped the __________. Companies, schools and embassies all confirm the same - Beijing is rapidly losing its foreign employees.

The American Chamber of Commerce __________ whether organisations had experienced any difficulties in recruiting or retaining senior executives to work in China because of air quality issues.

The number of __________ answering ‘yes’ is gradually increasing. It was 19 % in 2008, 34 % in 2013 and 48 % in 2014.

Companies in many sectors report that managers are trying to escape the pollution asking to be __________. 56 % out of 5000+ people interviewed named health issues as one of the main reasons.

As a result, foreign enterprises are having difficulty attracting top talent to Beijing as many refuse to move __________ to its worsening air quality. “It’s hard to find a manager for Beijing today. It’s become a real challenge”, said recruiters.

In addition to this, international schools’ headmasters say that admissions fell by 5 % last year, because parents worry about the long-term effects of __________ their children to such foul air.

The pollution index rose to a level more than 20 times higher than recommended. Statistics found outdoor air pollution contributed to 1.2 million __________ deaths in China in 2010. However, the Chinese government has not been inactive, and people need to understand that there is no quick fix to cleaning the air.

A monitoring system has been __________ in all of China’s primary cities and millions of dollars have been invested to upgrade China’s industrial system.

Nonetheless, Beijing remains the political and economic centre and a recent survey still __________ China as its number one location for expats.