In the China Daily, Jiang Ping, a leading legal scholar in China and former President of the China University of Political Science and Law, writes: On November 13, 2005, a blast at the Jilin Chemical Plant caused the leakage of tons of benzene, aniline and nitrobenzene into the Songhua River. This, in turn, threatened the […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via China Radio International (CRI): China’s top legislature on Saturday began its first hearing of the draft law on emergency management, aiming to improve the country’s ability to handle frequent industrial accidents, natural disasters, health and public security hazards. The decision to introduce such a law was made in May 2003, during the […]
Read MoreEnglish report from the Worldwatch Institute based on reports in local Chinese press (link): More than 100 villagers rampaged through a tannery complex in Quanzhou in China’s eastern Fujian Province on April 9, attacking several factories over their air and water pollution, the local paper Strait News reported. Attacks on four factories took place between […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times (link) Beijing said on Thursday it would commit Rmb10bn ($1.2bn) towards cleaning up last year’s chemical spill in the northeastern Songhua River, one of the worst environmental disasters in China since the founding of the communist state in 1949. The State Council, China’s cabinet, approved a plan for the next five […]
Read MoreTo safeguard it’s supply of safe drinking water, a province in China seeks to pass a tough environmental law and prosecute pollluters. GUANGDONG, March 16, Xinhuanet (Link) The legislature of southern Guangdong Province, an economic engine of China, is creating a law to protect its supply of drinking water. A draft of the law will […]
Read MoreThe following post is from the China-based Ah-Q Weekly blog (link: ÈòøQÂë®Âàä), translated and links embedded by CDT; the author’s writing mixes using a sarcastic tone and some real heartfelt words: About the NPC and...
Read MoreFrom The Age: CHINA’S top environmental watchdog is demanding immediate reporting of pollution accidents to avoid a repeat of the disastrous toxic spill on the Songhua River. The State Environmental Protection Administration said it had received 45 accident reports, mostly water pollution, since last November when an explosion in a chemical plant on the Songhua […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times, via the International Herald Tribune: Two recent chemical spills have forced officials in different regions of China to take emergency precautions to protect water supplies for millions of people – the latest examples of the environmental and public health threats posed by industrial pollution. The new spills were reported in […]
Read MoreFrom Chron.com: China will invest more than $3 billion over the next five years to clean up the Songhua River, a key source of drinking water for tens of millions of people that was polluted in November by a toxic spill that flowed into Russia, reports said Sunday. The pollution control effort will cover the […]
Read MoreFrom The Age: There are many problems in China: social and environmental, political and economic. But behind them is the lack of media freedom. As such, the crisis surrounding the Songhua River spill symbolises the country’s wider woes. A poisoned river can spoil many lives. So, too, a poisoned media. Technorati Tags: China, press freedom
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