Dongting Lu, a Beijing-based reporter, says that Zibo ÔºàÊ∑ÑÂçöԺ⠓hopes for clear water and blue skies have been shattered by companies that continually flout environmental regulations.” From Chinadialogue:
Chang Benfeng, Wang Bingwen and Zhou Jingxin live in a residential compound in the town of Zhongbu, near the city of Zibo in east China’s Shandong province. They showed me the buildings where they live and the pollution they have endured in recent years. Chang placed a magnet on the ground, and demonstrated how it instantly attracted a layer of iron particles, of which a new layer falls from the sky every day. Over the northern and eastern walls of the compound, trucks laden with iron ore and coal rumbled back and forth, stirring up a “black snow” of dust and iron particles….[Full Text]
[Image from Chinadialogue]
