As per new report by the former health minister in China, about 500,000 people are dying because of air pollution in the country every year. Chen Zhu, senior most government official, has been the one to put human cost on air pollution that maps the skies in China.

Global warming and climate change has been an issue of concern from past many years across the globe. Recent reports by Chen's came in highlights in December's issue of The Lancet co-written with Wang Jinnan, Ma Guoxia and Zhang Yanshen.

Government has always been requesting people to step forward and contribute in conservation plans made by them in order to have control on increasing air pollution. Researchers from World Bank, WHO, and the Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning analyzed the effect of air pollution on health of people in Chinese.

They found that between 350,000 and 500,000 people die prematurely each year as a result of outdoor air pollution in China. Chen and some of his colleagues concluded air pollution to pose fourth biggest threat to health of people in China.

They added that despite of factors like heart diseases, genetic disorders, smoking and many other health issues to be the leading cause of death, number of deaths have been reported are caused by air pollution.