That is because people who live in China are more concentrated on getting a better economic position. This means they build lots of factories of all sorts. They dump waste in the water so that means China's waterway pollution is very severe.China economic position is growing at 10% a year. Now though, they're trying to be a little more eco-friendly.he majority of the air pollution in China is generated by the  burning of coal (and a bit of fuel oil) to generate electric power.  They do not have that much hydropower to … help with demand, and they  rely on the burning of coal.