| Abstract | Focused on the key pollutant of haze constitution, PM10, this article included 30 provincial capital cities (municipalities) as samples and took into comprehensive consideration of health hazards such as excess deaths, respiratory diseases, circulation system diseases and chronic diseases, and also measured the health-related economic losses caused by haze pollution from 2003 to 2012. This study has found out: take year 2012 for example, the average health-related economic loss of sample cities caused by haze pollution is 9.6 billion yuan, and the average ratio of economic loss to GDP is 1.6%, indicating a significant loss. However, although the absolute loss has been rising unremittingly during the past 10 years, the ratio has declined continually, which reflects the positive progress cultivated by the ecological civilization construction. In terms of region, average annual concentration of PM10 in northern is significantly higher than that in southern, and so does the ratio of economic loss to GDP. Among all cities, absolute loss is the highest in municipalities and northwestern cities have the highest ratio of loss to GDP. In terms of cause of loss, chronic diseases have the greatest impact nowadays, but the rapidly rising impact of circulation diseases is also worth attention. Additionally, based on the sensitivity analysis, we found that increasing annual growth rate of GDP in the future will lead to increase of health-related economic losses, and decline in pollutant concentration will lead to falling losses. Whereas, the latter one’s impact is more significant. |