A poll on the Ban of Consuming Undomesticated Animals

    A phone-interview at a large scale was conducted in July, 2003. It made its subjects 4036 residents from eleven main cities throughout Guangdong Province, differing in their sex, age and income.
As the survey turned out, 80% of the interviewees agreed on the damage of wildlife consumption, indeed an uncivilized customary diet, on natural environment. And 62.9% believed in the link between the breaking out of SARS and the inconsiderate eating of the wildlife. 88.8% of the interviewees supported the legal act of banning.50.4% interviewees consider selective banning reasonable while 33.6% go to extreme by banning it at all, and 10.1% are unable to clear their stand. But in all, there is a lack of confidence in the ban execution, for 41% interviewees clearly stated that the ban “would not” has its effect on eliminating the wildlife consuming, while 25.4% said “it would” and another 25.8% said “it is difficult to say”.
More than fifty percent of interviewees nodded that wildlife has been in their menu. Rich people are listed as the main consumer for wildlife by 68.8% of the interviewees, and powerful people are listed by 44.2% interviewees.

A Survey on the Noise Pollution in Guangzhou

The enter house survey was conducted in June, 2003, which included 110 Guangzhou residents living near the Inner Ring and the First Grade roads.
According to the survey, the citizens have a negative comments on the work of the municipal administration on controlling the noise, the satisfaction rate is only 5.9%. The pollution of noise has disturbed the people living near the Inner Ring and the First Grade roads seriously. Among the interviewees, 93.1% admitted that their tenement have been affected more or less by the noise, even 93.2% exclaimed that their daily life has been damaged to differing extents. And 92.2% complained about their suffered sleeping hours,89.1% about their working hours. 95.2% admitted that their personal healthy are menaced.