Soil Contamination in China: Current Status and Mitigation Strategies
Nanjing Agricultural University · Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences · +3 more institutions
Abstract
China faces great challenges in protecting its soil from contamination caused by rapid industrialization and urbanization over the last three decades. Recent nationwide surveys show that 16% of the soil samples, 19% for the agricultural soils, are contaminated based on China’s soil environmental quality limits, mainly with heavy metals and metalloids. Comparisons with other regions of the world show that the current status of soil contamination, based on the total contaminant concentrations, is not worse in China. However, the concentrations of some heavy metals in Chinese soils appear to be increasing at much greater rates. Exceedance of the contaminant limits in food crops is widespread in some areas,…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 26.56
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 95
Authors
5- FZFang‐Jie ZhaoCorresponding
Nanjing Agricultural University
- YMYibing Ma
Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning
- YZYong‐Guan Zhu
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Urban Environment
- ZTZhong Tang
Nanjing Agricultural University
- SPS. P. McGrath
Topics & keywords
- Environmental science
- Contamination
- Agriculture
- Soil water
- Soil contamination
- Soil quality
- Food chain
- Fertilizer
- Sustainable cities and communities
Funding
- NNNational Natural Science Foundation of ChinaAward: 41330853
- MOMinistry of Education of the People's Republic of ChinaAward: IRT1256
- MOMinistry of Agriculture of the People's Republic of ChinaAward: 201403015
- PAPriority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions
- BABiotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilAwards: BBS/E/C/00005197, BB/H006303/1, BBS/E/C/00004981, BBS/E/C/00004960