What would you change about your hometow1

What would you change about your hometown?
Among the diverse aspects that I want to improve about my hometown is the natural
environment: make air as clean as before and water as limpid as glass and reduce as much
pollution as possible.
In the past,as I remember clearly as a child, the sky was azure and the rivers and lakes were
so clear that people can see the fish swimming freely in them. However, all has been
changed since the modernization of cities. Factories have been releasing industrial waste
into the clean rivers and lakes without proper disposal and automobiles have given out
harmful gas into the air without limitation. People haven not realized that they are
sacrificing the indispensable natural environment for industrialization and modernization.
Therefore, the improvement of natural environment will make my hometown become more
beautiful in the future.
Improving the natural environment will make people happier and healthier. People need
not wear antiseptic mask because of the dirty air and drink filtrated mineral water owing
to the polluted water. They need not worry about the increasing number of people who
have died from lung diseases. Instead, they can breeze aromatic fresh air not only at home
but also on the streets. They can cool themselves with their relatives and friends joyfully
under shadowy green trees. They are free from worry because of the gradual decrease in
all kinds of diseases caused by pollution
As a famous tourist city, the city of Zhenzhou generated majority of its revenues from
tourism. In fact, in the past twenty years tourism has contributed to the flourishing
economy. However, in recent years many manufacture companies have established
factories in the city and these companies have created many jobs for people but at the same
time have damaged the natural environment by producing much air and water pollution.
Companies face little pollution control regulation as the city sacrifices the natural
environment for industrial modernization. Excessive chemical waste released from
factories combined with unlimited carbon dioxide discharged from automobiles has
resulted in filthy air and smelly water. Today sky is no longer as blue and the water is no
longer as clean. Tourists are less willing to travel to the city which delays the progress of
tourism. The consequence is the dramatic reduction of tourism revenues for the city
government. In order to regain the prosperity of tourism and the economy, there is an

urgent need to improve the natural environment of the city. The government should
reorganize its strategy as we strongly believe that a balance of modernization and clean
environment can be reached.
In summary, I believe that improving the natural environment of my hometown will
contribute to the flourishing economy by increase tourism. In addition, people would live
happier and healthier in a clean environment.