Pollution In China
by Lu Guang
Elder shepherd by the Yellow River cannot stand the smell.
April 23, 2006.
Chemical waste from Jiangsu Taixing Chemical Industrial District dumped on top of the Yangtze River bank. May 15, 2009.
Fan Jai Zhuang in Anyang City, Henan province, there is only one wall separating this village from the steelmaking furnaces. The villagers live in this heavily polluted environment where the village is under the iron rain every day. March 24, 2008.
Industrial sewage of Zhejiang Xiaoshan Industrial District eventually flowed into Qiantang River. April 24, 2009.
Henan Anyang iron and steel plant’s sewage flowed into Anyang River. March 25, 2008.
Guiyu, Guangdong province, rivers and reservoirs have been contaminated, the villager is washing in a seriously polluted pond. November 25, 2005.
Shizuishan Industrial district in Ningxia province, the tall chimneys spitted out smoke and dust. Residents took preventive measure for the falling dust from the sky when going outside. April 22, 2006.
In the Yellow Sea coastline, countless sewage pipes buried in the beach and even extending into the deep sea. April 28, 2008.
In Ma’anshan, Anhui province, along the Yangtze River there are many small-scaled Iron selection factories and plastic processing plants. Large amounts of sewage discharged into the Yangtze River June 18, 2009.
In Inner Mongolia there were 2 “black dragons” from the Lasengmiao Power Plant covering the nearby villages. July 26, 2005.
Jiangsu province Changshu City Fluorine Chemical industry land sewage treatment plant was responsible for collection and processing of the industrial sewage. However they did not, the sewage pipe was extended 1500 meters under the Yangtze River and releasing the sewage there. 2009 June 11.
Soil by Yangtze River, was polluted by Anhui Province Ma’anshan Chemical Industrial District. June 26, 2009.
Large amount of the industrial wastewater flowed to Yellow River from Inner Mongolia Lasengmiao Industrial District every day. July 26, 2005.
A Large amount of the chemical wastewater discharged into Yangtze River from Zhenjiang Titanium mill every day. Less than 1,000 meters away downstream is where the water department of Danyang City gets its water from. June 10, 2009.
In Haimen city, Jiangsu province Chemical Industrial District sewage treatment Plant discharged wastewater into Yangtze River. June 5, 2009.
Hebei Province Shexian Tianjin Iron and steel plant is a heavily polluting company. Company scale is still growing, seriously affecting the lives of local residents. March 18, 2008.
Longmen town in Hanchen city, Shaanxi Province has large-scaled industrial development. Environment is very seriously polluted there. April 8, 2008.
There are over 100 chemical plants in Jiangsu province coastal industry district. Some of them discharge wastewater into the ocean; some heavily contaminated sewage is stored in 5 “Sewage Temporary Pools”. During the 2 high tides in every month, the sewage then gets discharged into the ocean with the tides. June 20, 2008.
Jiangxi Province Hu Ko County Chemical Industry district is by the Yangtze River. Chemical factory landfill the Yangtze River bank to expand the scale of the factory without authorization.
Anhui Province Cihu Chemical Industry District built a underground pipe to discharge wastewater into the Yangtze River. The wastewater sometimes is black, gray, dark red, or yellow, wastewater from different chemical factories has different colors. June 18, 2009.
15-year-old boy from Tianshui, Gansu Province, dropped out of the school after 2nd grade, followed his parents to Heilonggui Industrial District. He earns 16 yuan a day. April 8, 2005.
Inner Mongolia province Heilonggui Industrial District, the couple who worked at the Plaster Kiln and just got home. March 22, 2007.
Villagers from Kang village in Linfen City, Shanxi Province due to long-term consumption of the polluted water contaminated by industrial waste, there were 50 people who have cancer and cerebral thrombosis. 64-year-old Wang Baosheng got ill since 2003, he has fester all over his body so he cannot go to bed and lying face down on the edge of the bed each day. July 10, 2005.
Breathing in large amount of dust into the lungs, people gets sick after working there for 1-2 years. Most of these migrant workers come from area of poverty. April 10, 2005.
Zhangqiao village by the Hong River in Wugang City, Henan Province, a 45-year-old woman Sun Xiaojun could not move her feet and hands since 4 years ago. The numerous hospital treatments were not effective. April 7, 2009.
Zhaozhuang village by the Hong River in Wugang City, Henan province, 66-year-old Zhao Bingkun suffering from esophageal cancer since 2004, after the second surgery, treatment cost already have reached over 200,000 yuan. His condition is in late stage, he is having fever everyday, waiting for death. April 7, 2009.
Zhaozhuang village by the Hong River in Wugang City, Henan province, Gao Wanshun’s wife died of cancer. Now he lives in poverty. April 3, 2009.
Linfen City in Shanxi province is seriously polluted area. Farmers after working in the cotton fields for 2 hours are filled with coal ashes. September 24 2007.
Salt factory worker in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province said angrily, “when the wind blowing towards our side, the foul smell from the chemical factories is unbearable. There is even more poison gas at night.” July 19, 2008.
People from Fanjiazhuang are ready to submit a complaint filled with their fingerprints, to seek compensation for pollution damages. March 19, 2008.
In Shanxi Province there are a lot of charitable nursing homes, to help disabled infants abandoned by their parents. April 14, 2009.
Liujiawan village by the Hong River in Wugang City, Henan province, 13 year old Yang Xiao in November 2008 was ill with obscure disease. She was saved by the donation of the villagers. When the grandmother saw the old village chief came to visit his granddaughter, she kneeled on the ground holding granddaughter’s hand. April 19, 2009.
The oldest is 9, not going to school. The youngest is less than 2 years old. They lived in severely polluted area. They hands and faces were always dirty. April 10, 2005.
Mazhuang village by the Hong River in Wugang City, Henan province, 58-year-old Ma Haipeng was suffering from stomach cancer since 2006 and could not work in the field. He must take medicine every day, otherwise it is too painful. April 6, 2009.
Every year, a lot of deficiency babies in Shanxi Province were abandoned. Kong Zhenlan in Qi town who was making a living by recycling trash adopted 25 abandoned children. April 14, 2009.
Xuanwei in Yunnan province is a cancer village. Every year there are more than 20 people die of cancer. 11-year-old student Xu Li is suffering from bone cancer. May 8, 2007.
In Shexian Village, Hebei Province, the existing cancer patients are more than 50 people and more than 20 cancer patients die each year. March 18, 2008.
In Zhangyuzhuan village by the Hong River in Xiping county, Henan province, 22-year-old Zhu Xiaoyan had a tumor in her stomach in 2007. She died after number of hospital treatments on July 2008. 4-year-old girl with her grandfather came to mother’s tomb. April 2009.