From ChinaDialogue:
Half of China’s 20,000 petrochemical companies are located in the Yangtze River basin. On World Water Day, Jingping Zhang, Changjie Liu & Yan Han report on the ecological crisis facing Asia’s longest river.
“There are five large steel plants, seven oil refineries and petrochemical works for a number of cities including Shanghai, Nanjing and Yizheng along the banks of the Yangtze River.” [Full Text]
