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a very interesting read about the rapid expansion of refrigeration in China: 关于中国制冷业的快速发展，有一个有趣的事实： It is not simply transforming how Chinese people grow, distribute and consume food. It also stands to become a formidable new factor in climate change; cooling is already responsible for 15 percent of all electricity consumption worldwide, and leaks of chemical refrigerants are a major source of greenhouse-gas pollution. Of all the shifts in lifestyle that threaten the planet right now, perhaps not one is as important as the changing way that Chinese people eat. 制冷业的发展不仅在改变中国人种植、分配、消费粮食的方式，还成为影响气候变化的一个不容忽视的新因素。制冷业消耗的电能站到了全球电能消耗总量的15%，化学制冷剂的泄露是造成温室气体污染的一个主要原因。人类生活方式的诸多变化都会给地球带来威胁，在这些变化中，最重要的就是中国人饮食方式的变化。 Take a look at the rapid growth of the cold chain in China, which its corporate and government promoters envision will reduce waste and improve food safety. 让我们看看中国制冷产业链的高速发展现状吧。中国的企业和政府说客们预言说制冷产业链的高速发展将减少能源浪费，提高食品安全性。 Leading up to the 2008 Olympics, the Beijing municipal authorities embarked on an ambitious program of “supermarketization,” designed to get meat and vegetables out of the open-air “wet” markets — where food is cooled by standing fans and the occasional hose down from the cold tap — and safely behind sneeze-guards in modern, climate-controlled grocery stores. Mass refrigeration would provide an added value worth $160 billion per year by 2017. | 
