{"id":16130,"date":"2007-12-20T22:12:23","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T05:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/12\/20\/public-opinion-wins-in-xiamen\/"},"modified":"2009-01-30T12:03:25","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T19:03:25","slug":"public-opinion-wins-in-xiamen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/12\/public-opinion-wins-in-xiamen\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Opinion Wins in Xiamen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/thumbnail\/xinsrc_422120419071698432511.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/thumbnail\/xinsrc_422120419071698432511.jpg','popup','width=400,height=331,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/thumbnail\/xinsrc_422120419071698432511-tm.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"120\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Xinsrc 422120419071698432511\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/time-blog.com\/china_blog\/2007\/12\/xiamen_people_power_victory_to.html\" target=\"_blank\">According to Time China blog<\/a>, a final decision has been made on the controversial <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/tag\/xiamen+px\" target=\"_blank\">Xiamen PX project<\/a>: it&#8217;s being moved to an island in Fujian Province. Read Simon Elegant&#8217;s post <a href=\"http:\/\/time-blog.com\/china_blog\/2007\/12\/xiamen_people_power_victory_to.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, which declares it a victory of people power in China.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOn December 19, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/fortune\/2007-12\/19\/content_7277221.htm\" target=\"_blank\">People&#8217;s Daily issued a prominent, lengthy report <\/a>on the<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/12\/citizens_air_opinions_on_the_xiamen_px_project_danwei.php\" target=\"_blank\"> public forum over the project&#8217;s future<\/a>, and favorably mentioned that 80% of participants supported moving the project to another location. Immediately, several Chinese newspapers, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanfangdaily.com.cn\/southnews\/spqy\/sheping\/200712200451.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Southern Metropolis Daily<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.163.com\/07\/1220\/10\/405B0FR8000121EP.html\" target=\"_blank\">Southern Weekend<\/a> published commentaries supporting this move, while not yet saying the decision is final.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nESWN <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zonaeuropa.com\/20071220_1.htm\" target=\"_blank\">also translates an article<\/a> in Southern Weekend in which Xiamen deputy secretary-general Zhu Zilu explains why officials there opted for <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/12\/citizens_air_opinions_on_the_xiamen_px_project_danwei.php\" target=\"_blank\">a public forum<\/a> to discuss the project.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n[Image: The public forum in Xiamen to discuss the PX proect, via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/fortune\/2007-12\/19\/xinsrc_422120419071698432511.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Xinhua<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Time China blog, a final decision has been made on the controversial Xiamen PX project: it&#8217;s being moved to an island in Fujian Province. Read Simon Elegant&#8217;s post here, which declares it a victory of people power in China. On December 19, People&#8217;s Daily issued a prominent, lengthy report on the public forum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[99,132,100,4202],"tags":[1119,209,4725],"class_list":["post-16130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cdt-highlights","category-environmental-crisis","category-politics","category-translation","tag-industrial-pollution","tag-public-opinion","tag-xiamen-px","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Public Opinion Wins in Xiamen<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/12\/public-opinion-wins-in-xiamen\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Public Opinion Wins in Xiamen\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"According to Time China blog, a final decision has been made on the controversial Xiamen PX project: it&#8217;s being moved to an island in Fujian Province. 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