Fighting air pollution

Chinese actress, director and singer Zhao Wei (third from left) stands with Radha Muthia, executive director of Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, Ghanaian musician Rocky Dawuni (left) and Ghanaian football star Stephen Appiah (right) at the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves Future Summit in Manhattan on Nov 20. Zhao is an ambassador for the alliance in its effort to promote clean cooking stoves in China. "Everybody knows air pollution in China is a big issue," said Zhao, who has more than 60 million followers on social media, "Government has been focusing on cars and industrial production, but the clean stove has been neglected." The UN Foundation says there are 3 billion people using polluting cook stoves in the world, and that the indoor air pollution is the fourth biggest health risk in the developing world. Lu Huiquan / For China Daily