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Protesters in Kunming and Chengdu Fight Pollution

On Saturday, hundreds of people gathered in Kunming, Yunnan to protest plans by China National Petroleum Corporation to build a plant in a nearby town which would produce the hazardous chemical paraxylene (PX). From BBC: Some demonstrators wore symbolic masks and brandished posters warning against the dangers of a paraxylene (PX) spill. “We want to survive, we want health, get PX out of Kunmi